Each question alone in this interview was more interesting than the whole of my Oxford interview. I just got asked endless factual questions about what I wrote in an essay I submitted.
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My sense (and I have successfully applied for and been interviewed by Cambridge and Oxford at undergrad and postgrad level in History) is that this isn’t a great performance, but equally it’s probably not wholly untypical either. Doing “well” at interview is difficult for most people. I thought his answers about Animal Farm and the material culture stimulus question (i.e. the picture) were weak. He was better on the Ottoman Empire but it was supposed to be the subject of his EPQ so you’d hope he’d have something to say!
Its mainly Oxford, Cambridge and Medicine courses at other universities that interview undergraduates, most places do not. Its to assess their reasoning skills and so on.
the people applying to oxford and cambridge already have fantastic exam results so it would be hard to differentiate. also oxbridge's one on one (or two) teaching method is v diff to other unis and not everbody is suited to it despite if they do well in exams. the interview is supposed to highlight who works best in that sort of environment
