Jesus College ESAT Scores for Cambridge Engineering

In the 2025 entry cycle, applicants who received an offer for Cambridge Engineering (H100) at Jesus College averaged 6.42 in Mathematics 1, 6.65 in Physics and 6.38 in Mathematics 2 on the ESAT. All three sit above the median of the undergraduate college pool, and Physics ranks 5th among the 25 colleges in that pool, which is where Jesus stands out most; Mathematics 1 and Mathematics 2 rank 9th and 10th. One thing has to be said up front: these are score statistics for that year's applicants and offer-holders, not entry requirements. Cambridge has never published any ESAT score threshold.

Jesus College ESAT scores at a glance (2025 cycle, Engineering H100)

Offer-holder averages by module: Mathematics 1 6.42, Physics 6.65, Mathematics 2 6.38
All-applicant averages by module: Mathematics 1 4.3, Physics 4.39, Mathematics 2 4.28
Rank within the undergraduate pool: Physics 5th, Mathematics 1 9th, Mathematics 2 10th, out of 25 colleges in the pool
Gap to the pool median: Mathematics 1 by 0.06, Physics by 0.18, Mathematics 2 by 0.16; all three sit above the median
Spread across the three modules: 0.27, between the highest module (Physics) and the lowest (Mathematics 2)
Overall average across modules: 6.48 for offer-holders, 4.32 for all applicants

These are score statistics for the 2025 cycle, not entry requirements; Cambridge has never published any ESAT score threshold. The FOI response does not give applicant numbers per college, so the sample size is unknown and averages at small colleges can be moved by a handful of candidates. ESAT results are reported on a 1.0 to 9.0 scale to one decimal place. Pool ranks, pool medians, the overall averages across the three modules and the various gaps are calculated by FrontierVUE from the same response; Cambridge publishes no such rankings.

What ESAT scores look like at Jesus

The official Freedom of Information response (FOI-2025-956) splits the Jesus figures into two groups: everyone who applied for Cambridge Engineering (H100) that year, and the subset who ended up holding an offer. Each group is reported with a minimum, an average and a maximum for all three modules. Averaged across the three modules, all applicants come to 4.32 and offer-holders to 6.48, two figures calculated by FrontierVUE from that same response. ESAT results sit on a 1.0 to 9.0 scale reported to one decimal place, so every number in the table below is measured on the same ruler.

	Applicant range	Applicant average	Offer-holder range	Offer-holder average
Mathematics 1	1.1 to 8.9	4.3	4.2 to 9.0	6.42
Physics	1.1 to 8.3	4.39	4.8 to 9.0	6.65
Mathematics 2	1.0 to 9.0	4.28	4.1 to 9.0	6.38

Figures cover the 2025 entry cycle for Engineering (H100) and come from University of Cambridge Freedom of Information response FOI-2025-956. The averages describe that year's candidates; they are not a boundary of any kind.

6.48

Offer-holder average across the three modules

4.32

All-applicant average across the three modules

6.65

Physics offer average, the highest of the three at Jesus

6.38

Mathematics 2 offer average, the lowest of the three at Jesus

How to read these numbers, and how not to

Start here: not one number on this page is an entry requirement. Cambridge does not publish ESAT score thresholds. 6.65 means "the people who held an offer that year averaged 6.65 in Physics", not "you need 6.65 to be in contention". Those two sentences look alike and behave nothing alike.

Why 6.48 is not a target score

6.48 is the overall average of offer-holders across the three modules. It describes how a group that already held offers happened to score; it sets no bar. People sit on both sides of an average: among Jesus offer-holders, Mathematics 2 scores ran from 4.1 up to 9.0, so the spread inside a single offer list is wide. Treating the average as a target collapses a distribution into a point.

How many candidates sit behind these averages?

Nobody knows. The FOI response does not report how many people applied to each college or how many offers each college made, so the sample size behind every college average is unverifiable. Colleges differ a lot in size, and at a small one a handful of candidates can move the average; a shift between years may only mean a different set of people. No single-year college average makes a stable benchmark, Jesus included.

Ranked against whom?

Only against undergraduate colleges. Cambridge has four mature colleges that admit applicants aged 21 and over, and their applicant pool is not comparable with the undergraduate one, so ranks are computed separately within each pool. Jesus sits in the undergraduate pool of 25 colleges, and the 5th, 9th and 10th on this page are positions within those 25. Do not put them in one table with mature-college figures.

What about applicants who changed college mid-cycle?

The response notes that some applicants move between colleges or courses during the cycle, and the figures are grouped by the year of application. The group counted under a college is therefore not identical to the people who eventually study there. This is the easiest thing to miss when reading college-level data, and one more reason not to over-read the second decimal place.

If what you want is every college laid out side by side, plus the split between Home and International applicants, there is a separate overview on this site: Cambridge college ESAT scores compared.

The shape of Jesus: Physics is the tightest, yet all three modules sit close

Line the three Jesus modules up and Physics is what jumps out. Its offer average of 6.65 ranks 5th among the 25 undergraduate colleges and sits 0.18 above the pool median, while the two maths modules rank 9th and 10th, 0.06 and 0.16 above their medians. All three are above the median, but only Physics is clearly forward of the pack. At the same time the absolute distance between the modules is small: highest to lowest is 0.27. Hold both sentences together and you have the real shape of Jesus.

0.27

Spread between the highest and lowest module offer averages

5th

Physics rank among the 25 undergraduate colleges

2.26

Physics gap from applicant to offer average, the largest of the three

0.18

How far Physics sits above the pool median, the largest of the three

Tightest module

Physics

Offer average 6.65, ranked 5th in the pool, 0.18 above the median. It is the only one of the three Jesus modules to land in the upper band of its pool.

Lowest-scoring module

Mathematics 2

Offer average 6.38, ranked 10th. Note that it sits 0.16 above its median, more than the 0.06 of Mathematics 1; it is lowest only in absolute terms, because the pool median for Mathematics 2 is itself lower.

Module spread

0.27

Between 6.65 in Physics and 6.38 in Mathematics 2. A narrow band: the three module averages sit close together.

Applicant to offer gap

2.12 / 2.26 / 2.1

Mathematics 1, Physics and Mathematics 2 in that order. The three gaps are close to one another, which suggests offer-holders were strong across all three rather than carried by a single module.

Lowest score inside the offer list

4.2 / 4.8 / 4.1

Mathematics 1, Physics and Mathematics 2 in that order. The 4.8 in Physics is the highest of the three floors, pointing the same way as its rank and its gap. These three numbers also show that a low module score does not rule a candidate out on its own.

Two things in this data are worth holding on to. First, a spread of 0.27 means the three Jesus offer averages sit at almost the same level, with the three lines close together. Second, Physics is the one further forward, holding the highest offer average at 6.65, the highest rank in the pool and the largest applicant-to-offer gap at 2.26, so tilting revision time towards Physics has a basis. Keep the tilt small, though, because 0.27 is itself small.

How to prepare for ESAT with Jesus in mind

01Step 1

Start with one full sitting of all three modules

Sit Mathematics 1, Physics and Mathematics 2 back to back under real timing. What you need out of it is a level for each module, not one blended total. The three Jesus modules sit at nearly the same level, so only a module-by-module read tells you where you are weak.

02Step 2

Pull your weakest module up to the other two

Bring your lowest module level with the other two before trying to lift everything. Which module that is has nothing to do with what you enjoy and everything to do with where your measured dip actually is.

03Step 3

Then push Physics one notch further

Physics is the module where this college ranks highest in its pool (5th) and where the applicant-to-offer gap is widest (2.26). Once the three are level, give spare time to Physics first. That is the most specific ordering the Jesus data supports.

04Step 4

Review whole timed papers, filed by module

File every error by module and watch whether each of the three curves is rising. The goal is not a particular score but the absence of an obvious dip between modules; whichever one lags gets the next block of time.

Where revision weight goes, Jesus shape

Three modules sit close together, with Physics slightly tighter

Mathematics 1Offer average 6.42, ranked 9th

Speed on algebra and functions
Turning a stem into an equation without slips
Drill the base shared with Mathematics 2 once, not twice

PhysicsOffer average 6.65, ranked 5th, gap 2.26

Multi-step modelling in mechanics and circuits
A habit of checking dimensions and units
Treating physics items as maths with context, to gain speed

Mathematics 2Offer average 6.38, ranked 10th

Fluency in further algebra and geometry
Banking marks step by step on long items
Deciding what to skip under time pressure

Whole-paper rhythmAll three modules in one sitting

Sit them consecutively under real timing
File errors by module, never in one pile
Re-test regularly to see all three rising together

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One last reminder: the path above is a revision priority read off the shape of one college's data, not a plan reverse-engineered from a cut-off. These scores do not tell us what Jesus requires. They tell us how that year's offer-holders happened to score, and we do not even know how many of them there were. Use it for direction, not as a pass mark.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What ESAT score do you need for Jesus College?

There is no score requirement, and Cambridge has never published an ESAT threshold. What can be quoted is this: applicants who held a Cambridge Engineering (H100) offer at Jesus in the 2025 cycle averaged 6.42 in Mathematics 1, 6.65 in Physics and 6.38 in Mathematics 2, for an overall 6.48 across the modules. Those are averages, not bars: within the same group the lowest scores were 4.1 in Mathematics 2, 4.2 in Mathematics 1 and 4.8 in Physics.

Is Jesus an especially competitive college for Engineering?

On the ESAT alone, all three Jesus offer averages sit above the undergraduate pool median, by 0.06, 0.18 and 0.16 respectively, and Physics ranks 5th among the 25 colleges. That places Jesus in the upper part of the pool without any module at an extreme. Keep in mind these are score statistics only; how competitive a college actually is also depends on how many people applied and how many offers were made, and the FOI response gives neither number.

For Jesus, should I spread effort evenly or focus on one module?

The data points closer to spreading effort evenly. The spread across the three offer averages is only 0.27, so the three lines sit close together and no single module is held up above the others. Once the three are roughly level, spare time is best tilted towards Physics: it ranks highest in the pool (5th), it has the widest applicant-to-offer gap (2.26), and its floor inside the offer list, 4.8, is the highest of the three.

Applicants averaged 4.32 and offer-holders 6.48. What does that gap mean?

It shows the ESAT separated the field clearly in that cycle: the applicant-to-offer gaps are 2.12, 2.26 and 2.1 for the three modules, all close to one another. Gaps that similar suggest offer-holders were strong across all three rather than lifted by one. This is association, not cause: these are score statistics, and they cannot say why anyone received an offer. The 4.1 floor in Mathematics 2 and the 4.8 floor in Physics inside the offer list show that a single module score does not explain the outcome either.

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