CHRISTMAS PREP FOR OXBRIDGE ENTRANCE

Know which Oxbridge course you’d like to apply to in future? If so, the Christmas holidays are perfect for some entrance prep. By the spring, you might be far too busy with exams.


It is certainly not enough to have fallen in love with a specific course: you need to cement the relationship. Is your library card up-to-date, so you can borrow something course-related to read over New Year? Have you already put a few relevant books on your Christmas list? The university prospectus may offer recommendations and newspaper reviewers will have lots more, as will chapters 2 and 11 of OXBRIDGE ENTRANCE: THE REAL RULES.


Alternatively, would a subscription to an online journal such as Geography Review, Nature, New Scientist, Biological Sciences Review or Student BMJ be of use to you? Students interested in the humanities benefit from the New York Review of Books (or read the LRB). History Today is an easy read and, if you care about politics or economics, the online daily Guardian or the weekly Economist (which have quite different perspectives) will help. How about asking for the DVD of a recent BBC science series, or of Shakespeare’s plays? Combined with a large slice of Christmas cake, each of these will enhance your well deserved break.