What do you want to know about Cambridge?

What are the gyms like? Does each college have their own? Are they good? (I've applied for Trinity & Selwyn).

Alas, Selwyn's gym is a garage with a couple of rowing machines in it, but the University gym is £40 for an academic year.

Alas, Selwyn's gym is a garage with a couple of rowing machines in it, but the University gym is £40 for an academic year.

Surely that's exactly why they want people who have genuine interest in the subject, so that the people don't just play the system, and actually engage with them? I can't see tutors having much interest in the intelligent, industrious and indifferent -- the indifferent don't provide interesting arguments, they just learn what they need to, and for the same reason don't make for interesting supervisees (I'd guess). This in addition to them being more likely to give up and just accept mediocre grades, particularly in the subjects that require long hours.

The only colleges I know of that have gyms are Emmanuel and John's, but I expect trinity does have a gym. There is also a university gym around Emmanuel, but I've never gone.

What kind of questions are used in the HAT?

That's Oxford, surely?

How common are remedial classes, especially in arts subjects?

I've got a few questions for current lawyers . How many supervisions do you have in a week, and what are you expected to produce for the supervisions? During lectures, what are you meant to do?( lol I know how silly this must sound)

Cheers in advance .

You'll have 4 supervisions every two weeks -- usually that means 2 per week, if you're unlucky you might get a 3/1 split. I've never heard of anyone having 4 in a week.

Usually you'll get an essay for every second supervision for each subject, but some supervisors give essays every week. It's hard to describe how much reading you have to do for supervisions because it's really up to you.

At lectures you're supposed to take notes

Thanks for that!

Ah I'm dreading my first essay , I'm pretty sure it will be rubbish lol.

Hmm I guess I'll just have to learn to take notes effectively, do you personally jot things down or use a laptop during lectures?

Laptop, unless you're an incredibly quick writer you'll struggle to keep up if you try to write. Unless you're really just noting the occasional interesting thought, e.g. if you've already done the reading. Even then, I personally find it distracting to be writing for ages -- that means I'm paying less attention to what's being said.

And I'm sure it will be fine So have you got an unconditional, or are you just confident?

I'm not a particularly fast writer, so laptop it is then!

Haha, I love that comment. I haven't got an unconditional offer, and I'm not confident that I will meet my offer tbh. I was just having a discussion with a former colleague recently, who said that her first essay came back with red crosses all over it! So I was thinking "hmm I wonder what they'll think of my first essay...?"

Well, I don't know about crosses. You'll get comments, and perhaps red ones if your supervisors use red pens, which is good, because that'll tell you how to improve. Your first couple of essays probably won't be amazing, but they can be good.

You'll meet your offer, it'll be fine.

What college are you going to?

I thought that there was also an aptitude test for History in Cambridge?