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How can I impress Oxbridge tutors?

My top tip for impressing Oxbridge tutors is to consider yourself an academic and treat the interview and your preparation for it like writing an academic paper- after all, by becoming a student, you are ent...
KG
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How do the colleges work at Cambridge / Oxford, and how should I decide which college to apply to?

Both Cambridge and Oxford are made up of a number of distinct colleges. A simple comparison would be to think of the fictional houses of Hogwarts.Functionally, most students live within college accommodation...
DM
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What is the best way to approach an unseen piece?

Read through the whole piece, underlining anything that is immediately striking / a bit interesting, even if you don't quite know why at first. Depending on whether you've been given a prompt (i.e. discuss X...
JS
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How should I prepare for an Oxford philosophy interview (for PPE) if I have never studied philosophy before?

Making a good impression in your philosophy interview at Oxford will be necessary to earn a place to study PPE. Oxford philosophy tutors will not expect you to have studied philosophy before, and they will n...
JL
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How can I prepare for the HAA?

The main way to prepare is to look at past papers, however there are not very many of these yet so it will not take you long to finish them all. If you want to prepare further then getting a book of psychome...
CC
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