Oxford entrance interviews

[westender]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11575163


That'll be 99.9999999% of the spoonfed yet allegedly recordbreaking dear wee stressed exam passers fucked then

..... Questions Which You've Not Been Coached For and For Which You Have to Use Your Brain....

"...The interviewer said "we always want to find issues that enable us to see how a student is able to handle and unpick a question
...What we found with this question is that it did manage to open what is a stressful occasion into a real discussion, and we want to offer places to gifted candidates who are willing to think out loud with us in tutorials, and in a college community, whilst they are still explorers into truths."

Excellent - good on yer, Oxford.

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Well, 99.99999999% of Scottish state school pupils don't even reach the gates of Oxbridge

Reasons for this can be found in my thread hereabouts.

That said, asking searching unrehearsed questions should be compulsory for all uni interviews, I think. As you say, coaching is rife and all individuality of thought is battered out of our children for the most part, as performance in schools league tables takes preference over a more rounded education.

Self-confidence and even 'entitlement' seems to be the sole preserve of privately and expensively educated children, as I see it.

BAH.