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What is the difference between lying and misleading?

A lie involves literally stating what you believe to be false, so that the liar is insincere about the semantic content of its utterance. By contrast, misleading involves implicating something that you belie...
NM
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What's the most difficult question you were asked during your interview for Cambridge?

During my second interview, the interviewer asked me to compare language with a city, meaning I had to use components of a city or town in order to describe how the structures of a language worked. I told th...
GR
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Will Oxbridge interviewers purposefully try and trip me up by asking hard questions?

A lot of the horror stories about Oxbridge interviews are exaggerations, but interviewers are likely to throw in a few difficult curve-ball questions. The tutors ... [book session to see more!]
JB
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Interview: (Shown protein structure of virus capsid) Explain what you think this structure is, and how knowing the structure may be of relevance to medicine?

(Note that a question like this would be done in parts, with interviewers guiding candidates through the questions based on their answers and their thought processes). This looks like the outer protein shell...
TL
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What is the best way to show that I have knowledge?

With regards to the Oxford interview, the tutors want to see your knowledge, of course. More important, however, is your attitude and your ability to think on the spot. They want to accept students who are i...
AW
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