OMPT-E, F and G: the three variants nobody writes about
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Short answer
The OMPT family runs from A to G, seven variants, and the last three are real tests with real programmes behind them. OMPT-E is the statistics variant (40 questions, 120 minutes): algebra plus probability, built for psychology and social sciences. OMPT-F is long-form business maths (21 questions, 180 minutes), OMPT-A territory delivered as extended problems; NHH in Norway uses it. OMPT-G is the science module (26 questions, 180 minutes) whose final chapters cover physics mechanics and chemistry; Finnish institutions like LUT University and Arcada require it.
Almost everything written about the OMPT covers the A through D, so students assigned an E, F or G tend to turn up to a first session slightly panicked, having found nothing that speaks to their actual test. This post is the missing briefing. All figures below come from the official syllabus pages at omptest.org, checked September 2026.
OMPT-E: the statistics one
The E shares the algebra-and-functions core of the family, then heads somewhere none of the others go: descriptive statistics, combinatorics, probability, random variables, and probability distributions, 161 curriculum topics across 12 chapters in all. What it drops is calculus depth. If your offer is for psychology or another statistics-heavy social science, this is almost certainly your letter.
One warning about the E: students underestimate it precisely because "no hard calculus" sounds gentle. But school maths tracks rarely get past basic probability, so the second half of the syllabus is new material for most candidates, and the notation alone, factorials, binomial coefficients, expected-value sums, slows people down for a week. At 40 questions in 120 minutes you get three minutes each, with no time to derive counting formulas from scratch. Drill combinatorics and probability until the notation is boring, and treat the algebra half of the test with equal respect: it still decides half your score.
OMPT-F: business maths in long form
The F is the strangest of the three at first glance: the same territory as OMPT-A, algebra through differentiation, no trig, no integrals, 149 topics, but only 21 questions in a full 180 minutes. Same maths, opposite exam. The A tests whether you are fast; the F tests whether you are thorough. Each question is a multi-step problem where the work matters, so preparation means writing complete solutions, not sprinting drills.
Some economics and business programmes ask for the F instead of the A, NHH Norwegian School of Economics being the confirmed example. If you get to 21 questions in 180 minutes and your instinct says "easy, that is 8.5 minutes each", adjust it: the F fills those minutes. Practise on full-length problems and get comfortable holding a thread through four or five dependent steps, because an arithmetic slip in step one is expensive when steps two through five inherit it.
OMPT-G: maths plus actual science
The G is the odd one out of the entire family. Its syllabus starts as maths, linear material, quadratics, functions, exponentials and logarithms, sequences and series, trigonometry, geometry, and then its final chapters cover physics mechanics and chemistry. Yes, chemistry, on a mathematics placement test. It runs 26 questions in 180 minutes over 119 topics, and Finnish science-track admissions use it: LUT University and Arcada both name it.
Practical notes across all three
The mechanics of sitting an E, F or G are the same as the rest of the family: online, webcam-proctored, booked at least 72 hours ahead, graded in about 8 business days on the standard track. Pricing at last check of omptest.org: €240 per attempt for the E and G, €270 for the F, which shares the higher tier with the D. Cutoffs are the murkiest part; published score requirements for these variants are rare, and most programmes confirm the bar by email. Ask admissions for the number in writing before you plan anything around a guess.
One more pattern worth naming: E, F and G candidates start later. Not because they are less diligent, but because they spend the first weeks of summer just working out what their test even is, while A and B candidates found a hundred resources on day one. If that was you, the time was not wasted, it was the research tax on an under-documented exam. But pay it once and move: the study-hour estimates below do not shrink because the internet was unhelpful.
Why the silence about these three?
Market size, mostly. The A and B feed the huge Dutch business and econometrics intakes, so that is where prep content clusters. The consequence for you is practical: be extra suspicious of generic "OMPT prep" that never names a variant, because it was almost certainly written with the A in mind and will happily let an E student ignore probability for a month. Everything on this site is built per variant for exactly that reason, and the study-hour estimates differ too: omptest.org suggests around 120 hours for the E and G against 80 for the A and F. Know your letter, prep your letter.