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Good news for students who hate paperwork (are there others?). Both the Cambridge and the Oxford Application form, which all their candidates until this year had to submit in addition to their UCAS form, have now been abolished. To provide the right, Oxbridge-oriented information to UCAS, though, read chapter 8 of OXBRIDGE ENTRANCE: THE REAL RULES.

At Oxford, only students who are seeking music awards, or wish to be interviewed overseas, or are graduate applicants for its Accelerated Medical Course need to fill in an extra form. Cambridge, too, only asks for extra forms from a few small groups: students from outside the EU, students seeking music awards and applicants for the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine. Schools can also still fill in the Cambridge Special Access form to alert the university to a disadvantaged student’s circumstances.