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What do interviewers look for in a candidate?

The most important thing to remember is that your interviewer will most likely also be a supervisor/tutor. Therefore, the best thing to do is to come across as someone they'd enjoy supervising and as someone...
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How can I improve my personal statement?

My first tips would be to: Avoid any cliché sentences. Do not use hyperbole to describe your passions as this will come across as insincere. Instead, demonstrate your enthusiasm by engaging with what you hav...
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A patient comes to you saying they have lost peripheral vision. What is the diagnosis?

This is a classic style of Oxbridge interview question, where the candidate is presented with a question on a topic they won't have seen before, and is expected to work logically using the information provid...
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How do I write a convincing personal statement?

Plan it. What are my skills? How did I develop these skills? (It is not the story of your life so stick to relevan things only) Talk about your experiences and why were they important and how are they releva...
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Suppose we complete a rectangle of dimensions m*n by the following rule: everytime we complete a square, we put in an number from 0 to 4 equal to the number of adjacent squares already completed. What can we say about the sum of the numbers in all squares

Well, first we can notice that we can think about the table being covered with dominos. Each possible domino we can put on the table ends up increasing our final sum by one, since one of the two squares will...
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