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Defence · what it takes to get in
The exams that gate defence
Every exam in this catalogue that leads into this field, with the figures each one publishes. A field with several gates is not a field with several chances — read what each one actually opens before preparing for all of them.
Nothing is written about this field yet beyond the exams themselves — what the work is like, and whether the thinking suits you, are still to come. The figures below are sourced and current regardless; they come from the catalogue rather than from anyone's judgement.
Only exams this site has sourced appear here. Others exist — the route page names the ones it knows of — and they will appear once their figures come from a document rather than from an aggregator. The full exam finder covers every field.