The Faculty of Law is gathering the opinions of law students about the admissions process, which is currently being overhauled following the scrapping of AS levels.

A survey emailed out to undergraduates aims to find out what they believed were the “most important factors” leading to their admission.

The survey also asks how students believe the application process to read Law “might be improved”.

Students in England embarking on A Levels this autumn are the first who will not have to take mandatory AS Level exams.

The decision to scrap AS Levels has proved controversial with university admissions tutors, who argue that the exams provide an accurate assessment of an applicant’s abilities.

“From 2016, the Colleges will ‘lose’ much of the detail they previously had of applicants’ exam grades in the senior years of their schooling,” the email, sent by Academic Secretary in the Faculty of Law Peter Turner, reads.

The email then asks for suggestions on how colleges should test whether applicants are “suited to the reading of Law at Cambridge” without this information.

Currently, 24 out of the 29 colleges which admit undergraduates to read law require applicants to sit the Cambridge Law Test, an hour-long test in which applicants are required to answer one essay question.

Previously, Cambridge had used the Law National Admissions Test (LNAT), which is widely used at other universities and contains a large section of multiple-choice questions, to help assess applicants.

However, the university discovered that applicants with high LNAT scores did not necessarily go on to achieve correspondingly high marks in Tripos, so abandoned this in 2009, claiming that the LNAT did not provide “sufficiently distinctive and useful information” to evaluate potential students.

Turner told Varsity that the faculty intended to provide the information contained in the responses to Directors of Studies at individual colleges.

This is because responsibility for admitting students for undergraduate degrees rests with the colleges rather than with faculties or departments.

Directors of Studies “are being asked to agree on plans for the testing of applicants seeking admission to read Law in the University from 2016”.

Turner emphasised that “all opinions are currently being considered, including the various opinions of the Directors of Studies” as well as those “gathered from students through the short admissions survey”.