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What would be your best advice for someone going to interview at Oxford or Cambridge?

First of all, be happy with yourself that you've got this far! If they want to take the time to interview you, it means that you've impressed them and they want to get to know what you're like as a person...

Answered by Alec M. Oxbridge Preparation tutor
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What is the difference between lying and misleading?

A lie involves literally stating what you believe to be false, so that the liar is insincere about the semantic content of its utterance. By contrast, misleading involves implicating...

Answered by Neri M. Oxbridge Preparation tutor
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What's the most difficult question you were asked during your interview for Cambridge?

During my second interview, the interviewer asked me to compare language with a city, meaning I had to use components of a city or town in order to describe how the structures of a language worked. I told...

Answered by Gabrielle R. Oxbridge Preparation tutor
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Will Oxbridge interviewers purposefully try and trip me up by asking hard questions?

A lot of the horror stories about Oxbridge interviews are exaggerations, but interviewers are likely to throw in a few difficult curve-ball questions. The tutors ... [book session to see more!]

Answered by Jem B. Oxbridge Preparation tutor
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Interview: (Shown protein structure of virus capsid) Explain what you think this structure is, and how knowing the structure may be of relevance to medicine?

(Note that a question like this would be done in parts, with interviewers guiding candidates through the questions based on their answers and their thought processes).

This looks like the outer pro...

Answered by Timothy L. Oxbridge Preparation tutor
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