Course
Royal Holloway selection
Not named on the Clearing House list of courses using short-listing tests. Short-listing produces a score from the application form, and the course states that “all candidates are interviewed without their short-listing score having any impact on the final selection decision at interview” — a deliberate step to improve representation of ethnically minoritised groups.
University of London · London
- Before interview
- None named
- When
- No test published
- Last checked
- 11 September 2026
Before interview
Not named on the Clearing House list of courses using short-listing tests. Short-listing produces a score from the application form, and the course states that “all candidates are interviewed without their short-listing score having any impact on the final selection decision at interview” — a deliberate step to improve representation of ethnically minoritised groups.
Neither the Clearing House nor the course names a test. That is an absence of a statement, not a statement of absence.
At interview
Two interviews: one on clinical, research and academic topics with a course team member and a regional clinical psychologist; one with a regional clinical psychologist and a service user or carer. Positive action is used on the basis of ethnicity and gender at interview stage.
- Panel interview
Applicant-reported, not published
Applicants report a situational judgement element in this course's selection process. The course does not describe one on its published page. Treat this as unconfirmed.
This is not on the course's page. We keep it separate from what the course publishes rather than merging the two, because a report is not a source.
Practice here will not help with the test
If you have applied here
No short-listing test is named for this course, and its published interview does not use scenario tasks. Practice here will not move the needle.
What to do
- Read the course’s selection page and prepare for the competencies its panels actually assess.
Where this site does not help
- There is no test to prepare for, and this course’s published interview does not use clinical scenarios. Your effort is better spent on the application form and on the competencies its panels ask about.
Practice material here reflects what research and first-hand accounts indicate these assessments are like. No course publishes its test, so nothing is confirmed and this site claims no inside knowledge. Not affiliated with Royal Holloway, the Clearing House, the BPS or the HCPC.
Sources
- clearing-house.org.uk — selection procedurePage last updated 7 September 2026. We checked it 11 September 2026.
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