Oxford Applicants for 2012 Entry

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I have to take the greek one as well

I guess you're talking HAT, and yep I'm dreading it. Especially since I'm the only one in my college sitting it, so I'll be alone in the gym with an invigilator all to myself

Yeah, the MAT. see u in december in univ if we both get an interview then

I have a modern language application test on both French and German but have just done a practice one and did not do well ... has anyone got any tips?? Does anyone know what the average is or how important these tests are? can we still get an interview if we don't do well on the paper?

Good choice on Univ btw. It was my assigned college and the tutors interviewing me were amazing

(Not that I am unhappy with my first choice college though)

I just saw on the Merton College JCR website that they are having a Harry Potter party on Saturday and that they invited Emma Watson! How awesome is that

I have a modern language application test on both French and German but have just done a practice one and did not do well ... has anyone got any tips?? Does anyone know what the average is or how important these tests are? can we still get an interview if we don't do well on the paper?

This might be helpful

http://www.mertonjcr.org/events/19/the-harry-potter-halloween-bop

bit of casual stalking? aha Merton is awesome. I love it too much that I dont even want to go anywhere else!

Good choice on Univ btw. It was my assigned college and the tutors interviewing me were amazing

(Not that I am unhappy with my first choice college though)

I did badly in my German one too. I dunno what the average is but it can't be too high. I was told that even university standard linguists would struggle with these tests.

Hey, I'm doing the MLAT too for French. I know with me, I've done the specimen paper on the website and got my teacher to mark it. From that, I was able to see which bits I'm getting stuck on and need more work. I'm going through my grammar book and working through it, making sure I know the tenses inside out. I'm not sure about the average score is for the test, but I don't think you'd be written off if you didn't do as well on the MLAT. It's just one part of the application. They look at the whole picture, so everything will be taken into account accordingly.

I have a modern language application test on both French and German but have just done a practice one and did not do well ... has anyone got any tips?? Does anyone know what the average is or how important these tests are? can we still get an interview if we don't do well on the paper?

Was that the specimen paper on the website? Is there a mark scheme for it?

One of my teachers was showing me some old classics entrance tests today....is it just classics or do they seem to get harder as the years go on?

It's like the opposite of A levels

Hey, I'm doing the MLAT too for French. I know with me, I've done the specimen paper on the website and got my teacher to mark it. From that, I was able to see which bits I'm getting stuck on and need more work. I'm going through my grammar book and working through it, making sure I know the tenses inside out. I'm not sure about the average score is for the test, but I don't think you'd be written off if you didn't do as well on the MLAT. It's just one part of the application. They look at the whole picture, so everything will be taken into account accordingly.

Phew, I feel much better hearing this! Who told you about that? I showed my french teacher who is a native, and she had to think quite hard on a few of them... What sort of activites are you doing in terms of revision?



I am worried that I will do bad on the test and so therefore not be considered for an interview :/ Could I ask which grammar book you are using? I am using this Perfect Tenses collection which seem to be ok, but I am not sure they cover enough variety e.g. pluperfect etc. Tomorrow I will be going through the paper I answered with the teacher so hopefully that will help. I am also worried that, since I only started French a couple of years ago, I do not know many what I would call "basic" vocabulary e.g. simple nouns such as chair, window etc. Would this be a problem?

I couldn't find a mark scheme, I asked my teacher to mark it

thanks... I feel left out, so many people have been getting them which college and for what course btw?

Oh, that's a relief, I thought I was almost definitely going blind. Thanks!

What I ask myself is whether, especially in the "English -> language of choice" translation section, they're looking for direct translations, or... oh, God, I've forgotten how to say "sinngemäß" in English... er, sort of slightly looser approximations which nonetheless sound more natural than a literal translation. For example, in the German specimen paper, one of the sentences to translate includes the phrase "so many times". Are they looking for the literal (but a bit clunky) "so viele Male" or would a plain old "so oft" suffice?! (I may possibly be overthinking this... )