If you are thinking of applying for Oxbridge or any competitive course please take a look.  There are plenty of resources  to support applications and to inspire you.  This page will be updated when new events are added.

For KS4/KS5 students- Subject Matters sessions on A-Level choices, which will be relevant for anyone who might consider applying to more competitive universities (not solely Oxbridge). The next one will be taking place on 31 January at 5pm.  There are run  monthly, so if you miss it you can just sign up to the following one (once advertised). That and other open webinar sessions are here: https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/open-days-prospective-applicants/webinars

Useful links and resources

General Interview Advice – Web Links:

• Cambridge -  https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/interviews/how-should-i-prepare
  • Includes videos on this page on preparing for interviews
• Oxford - https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/applying-to-oxford/guide/interviews
  • Some excellent resources here even if applying to Cambridge including sample questions, demonstration interviews and guidance on the tech needed by subject (i.e. can be checked before hearing about invites)
• Inside Uni https://insideuni.org/ – this is a website collating lots of interview experiences by Oxbridge students. Organised by college and course, should give you a rough idea of what to expect! Also some subject guides.
• Oxplore https://oxplore.org/ – really good for practising talking out loud, verbalising thoughts and explaining thinking. Not subject-specific but more practising the skill over content, most useful for arts/humanities.

Some subject-specific recommendations:

The following are either ones that might generally be interesting, whilst others may be helpful things to look at to prepare for an interview.

• Engineering – https://i-want-to-study-engineering.org/ there are interview-style questions here
  • Maths/Physics students may also find this useful
• Maths for Cambridge – STEP https://maths.org/step/welcome
  • Other subjects like Engineering and Computer Science might like to have a go at the foundation modules here
• English – Virtual Classroom with an introduction to Practical Criticism https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/classroom/
• History – virtual classroom https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/welcome-our-virtual-classroom
• Theology - https://www.50treasures.divinity.cam.ac.uk/
• All subjects:
  • In Our Time on BBC
  • Reith Lectures
  • Gresham College
  • JSTOR – more academic-style articles
  • Project Gutenberg – library of free eBooks if you wanted to search for unseen passages to work with (English, languages especially)

• Cambridge PDF on supercurriculars
• Staircase 12 at Oxford (Univ)
• Christ’s Subject pages – each has a helpful resources section

Example Interview Videos:

• Law: https://youtu.be/71oRN8sG4sE
• Engineering: https://youtu.be/f3lYdO0XYL4
• History (online): https://youtu.be/PqaP0xptaU4
• Various subjects (online) from Sidney Sussex: click here for playlist
• Computer Science: https://youtu.be/I03cCH-TG_w
• Also see Oxford’s set: https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/applying-to-oxford/guide/interviews