MORE OXBRIDGE INTERVIEW ADVICE

Still anxiously awaiting the reply to your Oxbridge application? Remember, it’s early days yet. Better to focus on stage two of your Oxbridge interview prep:

·        Find out about the CHALLENGES currently faced by experts working in your chosen field. You can do this through news stories, expert associations like the Royal Society or specialist journals like New Scientist.

·        Get used to giving more detailed verbal answers to scientific questions than you do at school. This can mean stating which CALCULATION, experiment or line of thought got you there.

·        Practise some SPECULATIVE THINKING: What if Elizabeth I had died young? What if you could prevent a crime by torturing a suspect? There is lots of good advice on how to handle tricky questions in OXBRIDGE ENTRANCE: THE REAL RULES.