The Oxford 2012 Results Day Discussion Thread

I can't find one either but I have no idea how to start one. And I don't think you would be the only person out of all the offer holders who turned up to one of the weekends.

I missed two coursework deadlines while I was away at oxford, so I'm screwing right now. Plus my Jan resit!! Ahh!

The English interview I had was absolutely appalling. Even analysing it now that I've got a place, I can't see a single reason why they would have picked me based on my interview! There were four tutors, and me, which was very intimidating, and I hadn't read a single text that they asked me about (this wasn’t even them being mean - it was all texts I either said I’d read or was studying... Just hadn’t read them... Interview faux pas right there). They asked me to analyse a poem, but didn’t give me the poem; I was expected to remember it off the top of my head. All in all I felt it had gone pretty awfully, and *still* can’t see why they want me!

You hadn't read the texts?! There was no way I could have bluffed in my interview. The tutors asked really specific questions like "What do you think of the opening of this play?" and "What does this character say to that character in Act I Scene I? What do you think he means?"

You hadn't read the texts?! There was no way I could have bluffed in my interview. The tutors asked really specific questions like "What do you think of the opening of this play?" and "What does this character say to that character in Act I Scene I? What do you think he means?"

Clearly I'm not already doing that... at least I have Etoile to keep me company! Anyway, now I have been found out - congrats to everyone

Also special congrats to you guys who I may have seen around before and been rooting for:

Yeah... it was a bad move. I had talked about Russian literature in my PS, and *very* casually mentioned Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (which I read a few pages of for reference, a few years ago). The interviewer then proceeded to ask me who translated my edition, and various other intricacies which I had no answer to...

The nadir of the interview was probably when one of the interviewers asked me what I was studying at A2, and picked up on The Tempest. Needless to say, it wasn't very impressive when I couldn't answer the fairly simple question 'What genre of play is The Tempest?', having not read the ending.

So yes, that was why I was so utterly shocked at being offered a place

Clearly I'm not already doing that... at least I have Etoile to keep me company! Anyway, now I have been found out - congrats to everyone

Also special congrats to you guys who I may have seen around before and been rooting for:

Well done anyway, they must have seen potential, which is the important thing Which college? Did you bluff the answers or just say "I don't know?" :P

Jesus College I didn't originally apply there, so was very surprised when they picked me. For the question about the editor, I just had to say that I didn't know, as there was no way I could make that up. For the questions about the Tempest, I just sort of hedged the questions/said whatever I could remember about the few scenes that we've actually studied in class. I thought there was no way I'd get a place at Jesus after that interview.

I'm at Exeter, so just across the road! I couldn't remember specifics in my interview but I think they put it down to nerves Also, did you say something about not being able to take the poem into the interview with you?! That's so harsh!

Is there a human sciences FB group anywhere?

Not that I am aware of. I'm Human Sciences also What college are you?

I'll pop over and say hi then! Congrats on getting a place btw

And no, I was allowed to take the poem into the interview, and that analysis was fine. Later on in the interview however, I was asked whether I was familiar with the Donne sonnet 'Batter My Heart'. I was like 'Yeah... I've read it...', to which the examiner asked me to analyse the language in the poem... without giving me the poem. I could remember the first line, and then after that just had to give up because - obviously - I hadn't memorised the poem off by heart. Such a horrible interview

I emailed them, they said late January at Magd