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5 original TARA questions, written to the current spec. See how you do before you commit to anything.
The National Deck Fixings Association writes to notify members of increased warpage-related callbacks reported over the past two seasons, a period during which more installers adopted hidden edge-fixing clips instead of visible screws. At a pilot site in Yorkshire, the same three installers who fitted boards there in both seasons switched from hidden clips to torque-limited face-fixing screws, using timber from the same supplier; warpage complaints for that site fell by half. The Association recommends all members switch to torque-limited face-fixing screws as standard practice, on the basis that doing so will cut warpage-related callbacks across the membership.
Which is an underlying assumption of the argument?
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Critical ThinkingIdentifying assumptionsHard
The National Deck Fixings Association writes to notify members of increased warpage-related callbacks reported over the past two seasons, a period during which more installers adopted hidden edge-fixing clips instead of visible screws. At a pilot site in Yorkshire, the same three installers who fitted boards there in both seasons switched from hidden clips to torque-limited face-fixing screws, using timber from the same supplier; warpage complaints for that site fell by half. The Association recommends all members switch to torque-limited face-fixing screws as standard practice, on the basis that doing so will cut warpage-related callbacks across the membership.
Which is an underlying assumption of the argument?
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What’s on the test
Built to match the real TARA, section by section.
Three separately-timed modules. All candidates take all three. No penalty for wrong answers.
Critical Thinking
743practice questions
Multiple choice. Argument analysis, assumption spotting, evaluation of reasoning: the core reading-and-thinking module.
Problem Solving
775practice questions
Multiple choice. Basic numeracy applied to unfamiliar problems. No advanced maths required.
Writing Task
112practice prompts
One prompt from a choice of three, maximum 750 words. Not scored by TARA. A copy is sent to each university you apply to, so admissions tutors read it themselves.
And as whole papers
1,808questions
across 44 full papers you can sit end to end, timed, in the simulator.
8papers
GhostPrep mocks
352 questions · written by us
21papers
BMAT
706 questions · real, digitised
15papers
TSA
750 questions · real, digitised
TARA is too new to have released past papers of its own, so the real papers here are the tests it was built from, every question typed up with a full worked solution. See the whole archive
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Why "eerily"
If it doesn’t look like the real TARA, it doesn’t go in the bank.
Every question is written and reviewed against the current spec: same shape, same traps, same difficulty, same clock. Nothing softened to feel gentler than the real exam.
- Reviewed against the current spec, not last year's
- Timed to the exact real-exam clock, section by section
- A full worked explanation written for every one
- Pulled the moment it stops matching
Adaptive
Adaptive practice, not random drills.
Sessions target where you’re weakest and back off where you’re strong. Twenty focused minutes goes further than an hour of scrolling past papers.
Progress by sub-topicsession 6 · this week
Identifying the main conclusion54%
Drawing a conclusion41%
Identifying an assumption68%
Relevant selection37%
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Common questions
Straight answers, no fluff.
For most candidates, yes. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and the Writing Task are all compulsory, with one exception: if Oxford Economics and Management or History and Economics is the only course you're applying to that requires TARA, Oxford says you don't need to complete the Writing Task. GhostPrep covers all three modules.
Yes. Every question is written and reviewed against the current TARA spec: same shape, same difficulty, same time pressure. If a question stops looking like the real exam, it gets pulled.
Past papers are a great start, but there are only a handful of them and you'll finish them in a couple of weeks. They also come as PDFs: nothing times you, nothing marks you, and none of it looks like the Pearson VUE screen you will actually sit. GhostPrep gives you the breadth to keep practicing without repeating the same questions, under the real clock and in the real interface, for less than a single hour of private tutoring, month after month.
Most students who see real gains do 3–4 sessions a week for 4–8 weeks. Sessions are short and adaptive, so 20–30 minutes goes further than an hour of unstructured revision.
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