For centuries nervous candidates had only urban legends and vicious rumours to go on in preparation for their Oxford interview. But the university yesterday issued a set of sample questions and answers in an attempt to open up a rite of passage long enveloped in secrecy.
What is language? How would you design a dam? Would you rather save the rainforest or the coral reef? These will be pored over by interview candidates hoping to ready themselves for a one-on-one with a university don.
Oxford decided to release the examples in an effort to debunk myths about the admissions process. Mike Nicholson, Oxford’s director of admissions, said that the university wanted to show there are no “trick questions”.
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