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I've emailed the PPE admissions department today for an enquiry but they haven't responded. They've seen the email because I have a fracker and it tells me when someone opens an email. Is it because it's Bank holiday or have they just ignored me ? Thanks.


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I've emailed the PPE admissions department today for an enquiry but they haven't responded. They've seen the email because I have a fracker and it tells me when someone opens an email. Is it because it's Bank holiday or have they just ignored me ? Thanks.


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Bank holiday.

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They will get back to you shortly. Patience!
They will not ignore you

I am currently in year 11 and doing my GCSEs. In the future, I would like to study Maths, Further Maths and Physics in Sixth Form and go on to study Theortetical Physics and Applied Mathematics in Oxford. Are there any Oxford students that could tell me what grades they obtained at GCSE or anyone that could tell me how many A*'s would allow me to have a higher chance of being accepted into Oxford please? Thank you.

hi! question for biosciences students. anyone willing to share their timetable + show a sample of work to be done for tutorials? (eg essay title, problems worksheeet...). thanks!

hi! question for biosciences students. anyone willing to share their timetable + show a sample of work to be done for tutorials? (eg essay title, problems worksheeet...). thanks!

Do you have to be the son of the minister to get accepted?

Hi! I'm not a biosciences student but you can find some rough timetables here, there's 'A Week in the Life of' a Biochem and Bio student:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/University_of_Oxford_-_A_Week_in_the_Life_of_a_Science_Student

The biochemistry 'at-a-glance' timetable is here:
http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/timetable.asp
Try entering Week 1, Michaelmas, 1st year, to see what the first week of lectures is like.
On top of this there would then be tutorials in college.

Haven't been able to get stuff on Biology, but I hope this helps a bit!

I studied biochemistry. The timetable that square_peg linked is good. It's updated regularly/termly and lists anything department organised (and thus applies to all students) such as lectures, practicals and classes. Tutorials aren't listed there but are organised by your college tutor instead, often involving going to other colleges to have tutorials with somebody who specialises in the particular field that you're studying at the time. The number of tutorials per week and content varies - in first year I had 2 tutorials a week (one chemistry, one general biochemistry), one a week in 2nd year, then reverted back to 2 a week in third year. Fourth year is all a bit different because biochemistry students complete their research project then and get to choose topics to study for the first time, and thus the work you will do will vary depending on the courses you've chosen.

If you have any other particular questions I can try and help. I graduated in 2015 so some things might have changed, but it's unlikely to have changed much if at all.

Thank you very much! It helped. I was surprised to learn that there are lectures etc organized also during Trinity term. For some reason thought it´s exlusively exam-season, thus lecture-less. Or is it mostly revision lectures? Is trinity term different to the rest?

Thank you! It was quite helpful!

Thank you very much! It helped. I was surprised to learn that there are lectures etc organized also during Trinity term. For some reason thought it´s exlusively exam-season, thus lecture-less. Or is it mostly revision lectures? Is trinity term different to the rest?

Depends on your subject as to whether you have revision lectures or normal lectures - I know biologists have normal lectures still. Lectures usually only run for about four weeks though and then they stop for revision/exams. Biologists also have a roughly week long field trip not long before exams.

No worries. I can't comment for the other biosciences but with biochemistry, at least, in first year we did have lectures covering new content in Trinity. I think (it's hard to remember back 4 years) they then switched briefly to revision lectures, then there were 2ish weeks with nothing scheduled, followed immediately by prelims (1st year exams) in 7th week. Biochemistry students don't take exams in 2nd year so teaching is as normal in Trinity, but in third year it mainly consisted of revision lectures for 1 or 2 weeks.