Form now open. Closing date 30th August at 3pm.
The Engineering Mathematics Qualifying Exam (EMQE) is an alternative route for prospective students to meet the minimum Mathematics requirements for undertaking an Engineering degree course. It gives Leaving Certificate students a second chance to pursue an Engineering or Computer Science programme in the College of Science & Engineering, University of Galway.
Those electing to take the exam are offered a place on the preparatory course which takes place the week before the exam. The EMQE is available to students who are applying through CAO, on completion of the Leaving Certificate, and EU students who do not meet the minimum of a H4 in Maths in their Leaving Certificate/final EU school exams. The EMQE is not available to Non-EU/International Applicants.
The registration form for the preparatory course and EMQE Exam will be live on this page on August 23 rd , once the Leaving Cert results are released.
Places available will be allocated in strict order of merit. Due to capacity constraints, it is not guaranteed that candidates who achieve a pass in the examination will receive an offer.
Admission to the School of Engineering is confined to students who satisfy both the general requirements for Matriculation in the School of Engineering and the Mathematics grade required for admission to the individual programme (H4 for BE Programmes, H7/O3 for BSc Project & Construction Management, H6/O2 for BSc Computer Science & IT).
Places available (which may vary in number year to year) will be allocated to those candidates who have achieved the points requirement for the programme that year, who satisfy the general requirements for Matriculation in the School of Engineering and who attain a Pass in the Engineering Maths Qualifying Examination.
The places available will be allocated in strict order of merit. Due to capacity constraints, it is not guaranteed that candidates who achieve a pass in the examination will receive an offer.
The School of Engineering at University of Galway runs a preparatory week long course (free of charge) to prepare students for the Engineering Maths Qualifying Examination - the course takes place immediately following Leaving Certificate results. All students who register for the exam will be offered a place on the preparatory course.
The course will take place online, in the week prior to the exam.
All EMQE papers from 2015 up to last year are available via links below. Access to MS Teams will be arranged after you register for the preparatory course . Please note, there was a major change in the Leaving Cert syllabus in 2016, which was reflected in the syllabus for this exam, and so papers from before 2016 are not a good guide to either the content or the style of this year’s EMQE.