Second college interviews will take place on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 December. For instance, if they had also studied the USA during the Depression, I might ask the candidate whether the gaps in historical evidence are different in interwar America. If he had felt comforted by her remark, would he have been deceived? And 66=611=2x3x11, and 2, 3, and 11 are all prime so m(66) must equal -1. This is a fun question because the answer is typically the opposite of what they expect because they think about the shape the ladder makes when it falls (which is a series of tangents to a curve centred away from the wall and the floor). We are careful at this point to make sure that the student has understood the explanation before moving forward with the question. Which does sound comforting. In addition to running Microsoft Teams on a computer or similar, you will need a Miro virtual whiteboard. Candidates will then be encouraged to offer and test-out more sophisticated proposals about the nature of blame. Decisions regarding second college interviews will be communicated to applicants by 2pm on Thursday 8 December. What most interests us is that candidates are willing to venture down a new path, however uncertain this may feel: to have a go and show that they have the potential to develop their thinking further and thus thrive on the sort of course we offer. Normally you will be interviewed by two tutors, occasionally more. From an applicant pool of around 24,000, we normally interview around 10,000 applicants. You might also be asked to use Miro and your touchscreen device and stylus to: We have createdfurther guidance for tier 3 subjectson our webpage. One candidate suggested that no one should be allowed to stand for parliament unless they have dependent children, with the thought that this would ensure a personal motivation towards longer term thinking on a variety of matters. If there are any adjustments you need because of a disability, make sure whoever has invited you to interview knows about these as soon as possible. Assuming the Earth to be a sphere, and without recourse to pen and paper, estimate how much additional cable would be required to raise the telephone cable to the top of the 10m tall telephone poles (answers in this book), a thin hoop of diameter d is thrown on to an infinitely large chessboard with squares of side L. what is the chance of the hoop enclosing two colours? The candidate should then be able to explain why both fingers reach the centre of the rule at the same time as observed. At this point, I'd ask questions that bring out the candidate's broader reasoning skills in terms of thinking how we could define what it is rational to do in this game. Our interviews last for about 25 minutes, and are largely mathematical in nature. Interviewer: Thats correct. Below are additional subject-specific interview resources, some of which were filmed before the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviewers may wish to show you a document by sharing their screen, by pasting it into the Miro whiteboard, or by holding something up to the camera for you to see. The question also probes the candidate's ability to apply physics and maths to new situations and can test interest in and enthusiasm for the engineered world. We would have to find all four possibilities and take the minimum. We wouldn't expect students to get the right answer on their own, and in fact that's not the point: the point is to see how they apply their understanding of social and cultural factors in health and illness to a problem of epidemiology. Help me to sort them out from each other. The experience machine is a thought experiment (its also at the heart of the movie The Matrix, of course.) (submitted by Oxford applicant). Decisions regarding second college interviews will be communicated to applicants by 10am on Monday 12 December. This question was an invitation to think about democracy and its limitations it's a big question, but an important one. What would your study need to measure? The crystals vary in colour and size, and probably represent different chemical compositions (different minerals). Interviewer: Steve Roberts, St Edmund Hall. Music interviews often have several parts: there may be questions about your interests or on broad topics, and many colleges will give a reading and/or a short piece of music to look at beforehand, which you will be asked questions about. Interviews will take place on Monday 5, Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 December. Room Booking Calendar | Mathematical Institute Log in Members About Us Contact Us Travel & Maps Our Building Supporting Mathematics Alumni History Art and Oxford Mathematics News Vacancies Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Study Here Undergraduate Study Postgraduate Study Current Students Research Research Groups Case studies Faculty Books Outreach Interviewer: Lorraine Wild, St Hilda's College. We might then ask if the candidate considers it possible that there are viruses that infect humans and reproduce successfully, but do not cause any disease. It's by no means limited to classical music I'd welcome answers which deal with musical styles and tastes of all kinds (and which are produced/consumed in all places). 3) Youdidhave evidence of the homeless mans guilt in the murder of the young woman, but you knew it would be rejected by the court on a technicality of evidence rules? Pirate A gets 99 coins, pirate B gets 0, pirate C gets 1, pirate D gets 0. (Part 2), [Official] Gonville and Caius Applicants thread 2021, University College London Applicants' Thread 2022, Can I still get into oxford? Theology and Religion doesn't require A-level Religious Studies, so we always want to find issues that enable us to see how a student is able to handle and unpick a question, relating the particular to more general concepts. If students have any questions, I want them to ask not to sit in silence feeling stuck! When you create an account, you will need to give your email address and create a password. Read ourdetailed guidance on how to connect to Microsoft Teamsfor your online interview. You can also explore theAdditional video resourceswhere you will find interview information for other subjects. Question: How would you define the maximum of two real numbers, x and y? Have a paper and pen, in case you would like to make notes. Student: Well 35 has an even number of prime factors, and 66 has an odd number of prime factors, so together therell be an odd number of prime factors hence I think m(35 x 66 = -1). Sometimes we might encourage the candidate to think through whether the person they selected would be willing or able to reveal the information they sought (and we allow plenty of time for the candidate to change the issue they want to find out about, and reconsider their choice of person). Have a drink of water to hand - ideally in a bottle which won't spill! There are many ways to answer it. Can't decide between Natural Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, or a Maths course. The first seems non-problematically something that might well be bad for us (involving suffering), but the second is harder to assess not least because one can have differing understandings of what the state of being dead is: is it permanent annihilation? Access to any pre-reading you may have been sent to look at in advance of your interview (only applicable to some subjects). Sometimes tutors may suggest an alternative way of looking at a problem. (iv) references and the personal statements contained both on the UCAS form. Similarly, Britain actually has the second-highest mortality rate because of the age structure of its population: we are a relatively old country and a majority of deaths occur in older people. A large study appears to show that older siblings consistently score higher than younger siblings on IQ tests. We recommend that youcreate a Miro accountprior to your interview to practise using a white board this is free to do. Weve also got an example of a statistics-style interview question, if you want more examples of maths interview questions. With so many more applications than places, it just isnt possible to interview everyone. The question probes whether they are able to apply geographical thinking' to the everyday landscapes around them. Students have usually have learnt that the kidneys filter blood to remove waste products, such as urea, that must be eliminated from the body but many other useful substances which must not be lost including glucose are also filtered. First college interviews will take place on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 December. It's not a question, then, of liking the right stuff but of finding out how curious you are, and how well you can apply what you already know to something new. Tuesday 6 December to Wednesday 7 December, Thursday 8 December and Tuesday 14 December. Interviewer: Good. The tutors not only want to test your technical knowledge and skills in more algebraic problems but also the spatial reasoning used in questions relating to geometry. Pirate A suggests he gets all the gold. You should not be afraid to start drawing on the paper in front of you while you think about the question. This might lead to a discussion of what is distinct about literary works, and this helps us to see what kind of reader they are more broadly. But its internal complexity is sufficiently difficult to test the brightest students, especially in the final part, whilst also allowing students repeated chances to show what they were learning and share their thinking. In asking such a question, I as interviewer don't have in my mind a fixed answer or set of expected points as the candidate starts to respond; the follow-up on any question depends on how s/he sets about thinking her/his way through it. In other subjects, you might have 'initial' interviews at your first college and then be invited to an 'additional' interview at another college after these have taken place. (Oxford university interview, Oxbridge Applications), What is the significance of prime numbers? Prove by contradiction that when z^2 = x^2 + y^2 has whole number solutions that x and y cannot both be odd. Youll be sent a link to a specific Miro whiteboard for your interview, and during the interview, your interviewers might show you a document by sharing their screen or pasting it into the Miro whiteboard, or by holding something up to the camera. I'd expect students to be able to use their general knowledge plus their common sense to come up with an answer no detailed knowledge is required. More information on the format of interviews in 2023 for 2024-entry will be available soon. In the second part of the question, you are asked to suggest how the rock formed, and why it looks the way it does (it is made of crystals of several different types, and the types of crystal vary in their average size). We want to see that they are motivated, and keen to engage with the topic. Mainly I always want to know that whatever they are reading, candidates are reading thoughtfully and self-consciously, and are able to think as literary critics about all the books they read. We hope that this will be either in your school or college, or your home or similar environment. First college interviews will take place between Monday 5 and Thursday 8 December. Where necessary, for tier 3 subjects and where there are more technology requirements, colleges will discuss arrangements with schools and applicants in order to find a practical solution for everyone involved. Interviewer: Ok, yes, but that doesnt sound very formal. Do you concoct the evidence to save the town from violence and potentially prevent the deaths of numerous people? Moreover, we are not trying to get them to guess or arrive at 'the right answer'. Past admissions interview questions for Mathematics, There's a torus/ring doughnut shaped space station with 2 spacemen on a spacewalk standing diametrically oppositie each other. Read the instructions carefully. You might also be interviewed by more than one college. First and second college interviews will take place on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 December. (The Student Room), Sketch Y = (x^4 - 7x^2 + 12)/(x^4 - 4x^2 +4). Is anyone applying to Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome) for medicine? If you are shortlisted, it is important that you recognise that in accepting your invitation to interview, you are agreeing to the following code of conduct: All the information on the tabs of this webpageand theInterview Guidewill tell you what you need to know. Feel good! Interviewer: Lynn Robson, Regent's Park College. If I were to visit the area where you live, what would I be interested in? There isnt a right or wrong answer to this question; we would be using the example to see how well the candidate could justify their stance. For tier 2 subjects you should access Miro on the same device youre accessing Microsoft Teams. If the technology goes wrong or the connection is bad, make sure you tell your interviewers so that they are aware. Good candidates should recognise that institutions matter a lot - respect for property rights and the rule of law appear to be pre-requisites for sustainable development. Book free Year 12 Oxbridge Programme Consultation. Candidates will also have the opportunity to present any special factors that they would wish to be considered. They might think of specific examples for detailed comparison: tigers and zebras for example both have stripes for camouflage and blending in with background, one to hide from prey and the other to hide from predators. Each video begins with an introduction from the tutors explaining why they interview and the format or structure of the conversation. In fact, what we are interested in is whether the candidates can make accurate and critical observations (what does the rock look like?) As the pH is raised a greater proportion of the molecules will lose a hydrogen ion to become negatively charged, being charged reduces the solubility in octanol and so the relative solubility decreases. (Oxford interview, Oxbridge Applications). You may have more than one interview, if you do we will aim to give you a minimum of 24 hours notice of these additional interviews. A just law might not be effective, or vice versa. So here is something to investigate. Students sometimes say they like studying Spanish, for example, because they 'love the language'. I quite like this question because whichever way one answers it, new questions open up. We might then go on to discuss how you could make a valid comparison between mortality rates in different countries. The issues are different once that distinction is made. Some systematic care may be needed to explain why the fourth answer is 5 and why no sixth solution has been missed. Departmental interviews will take place on Monday 12 December. Student: If we go along the bottom face, the distance will be, whereas if we go along the left face, the distance will be. What would a historian find interesting about the place where you live? The majority of candidates will expect Bangladesh or South Africa to have the highest crude mortality rate, and will be surprised to find that it is in fact Japan. Possibly, the education levels are too low to allow for the use of such technology or perhaps there are insufficient savings to purchase the technology or the infrastructure might not exist. (answers in this book), what is the volume of the largest cube that fits entirely within a sphere of unity volume? This not only gets you used to explaining your thoughts out loud, but also helps to consolidate your knowledge of the subject. Pirate A knows that if hes thrown overboard, pirate C would get nothing (as the situation would revert to the two pirate example above, with pirate C promoted to pirate B). This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic. In the first part of the question, when describing the rock, we want candidates to organise their observations, so they have some structure. How does that change the way in which you think about what you're listening to? We look to see if there are ways of simplifying the problem: for example, could you treat the Earth and atmosphere as a sphere slightly larger than the Earth and subtract the volume of the Earth from the larger sphere to get a volume for the atmosphere? Interviewer: Laura Tunbridge, St Catherines College. What would you need to control for? ; but would also be happy to see candidates investigate some of the assumptions underlying the question: Is English a global language? Do they help us to work out a view about individual responsibility in those cases? Interviewer: Ok. Maybe think about the average of the two numbers and the difference of the two numbers? This is the sort of conversation that no candidate could predict in advance. Can you give me an example? We do not expect the student to know the answer to this question straight away, and in fact getting the correct answer isnt important here. Or is value more in here, waiting to be created, depending on our own individual (or societal?) A. a capacity to absorb and use new ideas, B. the ability to think and work independently, and. Please view the sample interview timetable for interviews in December 2022 (for 2023-entry), which were held online. We aim to give everyone a minimum of 24 hours notice of these additional interviews. thoughts and feelings? In the case of candidates whose first language is not English, an English language qualification (such as IELTS level 7) may form part of theadmissions requirements. Second college interviews will be on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 December. Candidates will have a departmental panel interview on any of Monday 5, Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 December. (Cambridge interview, The Student Room), Whatever got you into pole dancing? Interviewer:Imogen Goold, St Annes College. Ultimately the prompts lead to the idea that the charge of a compound can change with pH due to gain or loss of hydrogen ions. This line of discussion would draw out their capacity to respond to challenges to their position, their ability to amend their initial answer when it no longer seems sustainable, and their ability to think precisely. Create a Miro account so you can practise using a white board before your interview this is free to do. Some interviews for overseas candidates will take place in the week commencing Monday 28 November. The extension to this question asks the student to interpret some graphical data and requires a more technical introduction. This is followed by the sample interview itself and then a tutors' commentary during which they discuss how they feel the interview went. Interviewer: Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College. Does 'political' mean something different in different contexts? The candidate would then be expected to construct simple mathematical expressions that predict when this would occur. If so, we would invite them to consider the case of the addict with unlimited supplies of pleasures-inducing drugs. If you still can't find it, contact the admissions office of the college sending you the invitation to let them know you haven't received it and they can send it to you again. (The Student Room), Sketch y=ln(x) explaining its shape. For example, in the case of longer parliamentary terms: What would be the wider consequences of that change? Watch at tomrocksmaths.com (link on profile) #tomrocksmaths #oxfordstudent #oxfordtutor, The hoodie versus the real tattoo - who wears it better? This question builds on general knowledge and material studied at school in biology and chemistry to assess how students approach a clinically-relevant problem. Hence, if we have some idea about atmospheric pressure we can calculate the mass pressing down on a unit area. Interviewer: Jan Schnupp, St Peter's College. Please note that these are likely to assume that interviews are in-person and not online. where might its meaning be ambiguous? Decisions regarding additional interviews will be communicated to applicants by 5pm on Friday 9 December. Most candidates would start by drawing some molecules to construct some that satisfy the requirement of six carbons and twelve hydrogens. All interviews will be using Microsoft Teams for video conferencing. Why is it that we can still see in 3D when only looking through one eye? Thanks . Don't worry if you don't know an answer immediately - see if you can work your way through it aloud. Occasionally candidates are able to give examples of famous lines or quotations that risk being misread when translated into English. I might follow up this question by asking if it would matter if less glamorous creatures like fungi went extinct. The plateau region above pH 9 occurs because almost all of molecules have lost the hydrogen ion by this point. In some subjects, you will be invited to interviews at more than one college before your interviews start. You won't be judged on what you wear. It's not assumed that a less-talented student will need more help on any given problem, and for this reason it can be difficult for students to judge how well they're doing during the interview.If a student gets things correct straight away, I just move on, either to further aspects of the original question, or to others. Interviewer: Do you know a way of making it always positive? 806 8067 22 Registered Office: Imperial House, 2nd Floor, 40-42 Queens Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3XB, Taking a break or withdrawing from your course.

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