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How much reading around your subject should you do?

It varies depending on the subject, but you should generally try and have two or three areas within your subject (not covered at school) that you're interested in and are able to talk about at reasonable len...
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Your hospital has received an extra budget allowance this month, allowing either one life saving heart transplant operation for an eight year old child, or 100 hip replacements. Which do you choose and why?

An ethics question such as this is a common medical school interview question. It is important to appreciate there is no definite right answer, this is merely testing your ability to weigh up both sides of a...
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How do you approach writing a personal statement?

My biggest critique of personal statements is that they fail in their primary purpose - to be PERSONAL. 3 tips. Know your audience - if you are applying for varied courses look at the skills and the similari...
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Is it easier for organisms to live on land or in the sea?

This is a question I commonly use when giving interview practise for potential Oxbridge students. A question like this doesn't have to have a corrrect answer necessarily, but should evoke a discussion and an...
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Write a function that checks whether a number is prime or not.

Depending on the student level I would accept a simple answer such as: (cannot format code) or expect a more complex answer with optimization such as sieve of Eratosthenes
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