Oxford Applicants for 2012 Entry MKII

I've noticed on TSR that when a thread becomes exceptionally long a new thread is created in its place and the old one is shut down... WHy ?

Was the old one closed ?

How do you know about submitting photos? Any forms t submit and do they email them to you? thanks!

What is everyone's progress? i applied for Mathematics....have an MAT on the 2nd Nov.

Before we start afresh, time to award some prizes from the old thread... (I've included anyone who got 50 posts)

[13]Niki_girl 150

Did you know: the top ten posters made up 49% of all the posts?

Yeah I think they mostly are.

For the HAT test the hardest bit is they give you an essay title and say to write about any event or area of history. You then have to sit there racking your brains for something you know about that could work with the question! That's the bit i'm most worried about, just forgetting everything! The rest is source analysis so it's a bit less stressful.

In the ELAT do you have to come up with any of your own texts and write from memory?

I know, another girl from my history class is doing the HAT as well and I'd hate if one of us got in but not the other

Good luck on Wednesday!

I know, luckily I'm not an international student but still would like some notice to get affordable train tickets. Also my boss isn't exactly happy that I may or may not be available for work for several days when we're busy with Christmas parties and I can't even tell her until maybe a week before.

I suppose it's the only way they can do it to meet their deadlines though, and they do have to have the college rooms free for applicants to stay over for their interviews too.

The old thread was impressive. Did we beat the Cambridge thread?

On topic, need to do the end of my ELAT practice today but am so busy and so tired.

Question, is it our subject tutors at the given college that are going to interview us? Because 2/3 Biology tutors at St Hilda's are Greek, and so am I! (At least on paper)

Question, is it our subject tutors at the given college that are going to interview us? Because 2/3 Biology tutors at St Hilda's are Greek, and so am I! (At least on paper)

Dave Gorman is a legend. Have you read all his books?

Welcome back! We've missed you

Yep I suppose there's a small chance you'll have only one interview at St Hilda's, and it will only have one tutor there, and it'll be the one who isn't Greek... but that's unlikely!

So, an interesting discussion: Do you all think it's better to be rejected pre-interview or post-interview? Obviously post-interview has the honour factor, but if you go and fall in love even more, it would make the rejection harder. Which of the two would you rather have happen to you?

How strange, it wasn't me who posted that. You've got the wrong maths geek.

So, an interesting discussion: Do you all think it's better to be rejected pre-interview or post-interview? Obviously post-interview has the honour factor, but if you go and fall in love even more, it would make the rejection harder. Which of the two would you rather have happen to you?

Definitely post-interview. Being interviewed itself is a pretty good achievement in most subjects and you do get the 'honour' Pre-interview rejection in something like Classics where they interview 97% of applicants is just insulting...

Ugh, 'end'? I need to begin my ELAT practice! There's a load more past papers up on the website, so that's my Saturday in a nutshell.

I'm pretty sure we beat the Cambridge thread.

In the ELAT you get six unseen texts on the same theme (the sample paper is all themed around fathers, and the texts range from prose, poetry, letters etc.) and you have to compare two or three of the texts in quote: 'a way you find interesting'. basically an essay on close reading but with no question to actually answer.......