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A Cambridge Modern and Medieval Languages graduate shares a common Oxbridge interview question, commenting on an unseen text in an unknown language, and how to approach it with confidence.
Continue ReadingHi, I'm Owen, a graduate of Girton College at the University of Cambridge, where I studied Modern and Medieval Languages and Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. In this post I want to run through a question type that comes up often in MML interviews, and ...
Continue ReadingHi I'm Deya, a second year medical student at Oriel College and I'm going to give you an example of an interview question you can expect as an Oxbridge medical interview. So here is a pedigree chart of the inheritance of a genetic disease. Explain h...
Continue ReadingHi everyone, so I’m Kyle and I’ve just finished my second year of studying biological natural sciences at Cambridge. I’m making this video today to talk you through one of the interview questions I was asked at my interview a couple of years ago. It ...
Continue ReadingHi I’m Louis. I’m a 3rd year medical student at Oriel College, Oxford and I’m here to give you an example of the type of interview questions you can expect at an Oxbridge medical interview. This is a graph I was given at my medical interview and I’m ...
Continue ReadingWhy do you think DNA is made up of four bases? How many hydrogen atoms are there in a glass of water? How does the structure of the amino acid glycine change with pH? Do you know of any experiments that we use to discover the properties of DNA? Triso...
Continue ReadingHello, I'm Alice, and today we're going to go through a question that would be suitable for a Biology interview. It's not the one I've done an interview on but is one I just made up. But I think it is suitable because it's quite an open-ended questio...
Continue ReadingMy name is Katie, I’m currently studying natural sciences at Murray Edwards college, Cambridge. I’ve just finished my second year of the course and I’ve chosen to specialise in Chemistry. So today I’m going to talk about the interview structure for w...
Continue ReadingHi guys, this is Adriaan. I study Maths at Oxford and today I’ll run through a very quick Maths interview question. This is the context. You play a game with a coin and the coin is not necessarily fair. By that what I mean is the probability of throw...
Continue ReadingHi guys, my name is Harry, and I studied Biochemistry at Oxford University, class of 2010. I want to share the kind of interview question that biochemistry applicants can expect, by working through one of the questions I thought was among the most di...
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