The Oxford TSA thread - 2015 applicants - 5th Nov 2014

From what I know, the score should be in the 60s after conversions, so yours will usually be high 60s low 70s. This will mean an almost definite interview, assuming your grades/ps/reference etc are decent. What course are you applying to and which college?

That's very good to hear thank you. My last practice test I got a 73. PPE, Merton. Merton was quite random though, I like the buildings and the location, didn't really know what else to decide on. Are you also applying?

Yeah, I looked at the buildings at Merton and they look fantastic. I am applying to PPE at Brasenose.

Well, massive fail. The cheaper book by Mithesh Desai is not available for purchase in my country (via Kindle) and the Ace the TSA book is not available for purchase via Kindle at all, despite Amazon saying that a Kindle version is available.

Ah, Brasenose is great. I visited and really liked the people. Didn't apply though, as I heard that many people end up at a different college because Brasenose is so popular. How is the TSA working out for you?

I've looked at the kindle sample of the cheaper an it looks alright, shame you can't get it. The other one should be available on kindle, not sure why it says otherwise

I'm a Brasenose PPE applicant too btw

The petrol tank of Jenny's car holds 50 litres of petrol. A warning light comes on when
only 5 litres are left. She always fills it as soon as she can after the warning light comes
on. The car travels 100km on 8 litres of petrol. Last time she put petrol in, which she was
able to do immediately after the light came on, she only had $6 with her so she spent it all
on fuel at 60c per litre. She then drove 50km and saw a new garage offering petrol at 50c
per litre - an offer too good to miss. She filled the tank completely and paid with her credit
card.
How much did it cost?


I am sure the working out is relatively simple...but somehow I can not get to an answer grrrrrrrr

Where did you find the 2007 test?

Is 'Think You Can Think' the only book with more practice papers in it? I'm not interested in the theory of it all, I just want to practice more. So far I've only done 2008 and 2009, got 44/50 on both of them which I think is decent enough. I'm really focusing on TSA as my GCSEs are below average for PPE and I'm a post a level applicant so got nothing else to do

An older thread.
Here you go

do you have the answer key?

Nope, that's the only problem.
I'll upload my answers later today.

@milkman Holes are 3-dimensional.

The TSA is going decently enough, but I will not bring myself to say fine, since its in the mid 60s (but I have only done two official papers so far, since I am planning on doing them during the following week). I hope that will be enough to get me an interview. I am not at all sure about how the essay is going, since I have nothing to compare it with.

I did not know that Brasenose was that popular. Ironically, one of the reasons I applied there was that my other choice of college, St John's, is even more competitive. I'll just hope it goes well and I am not pooled to some distnat college like Worcester ( I hope I have not offended any Worcester applicants here!).

Worcester is not distant, it's one of the nicest ones and is quite central! I think you're thinking of maybe St. Hughs or St. Catz.

For Q46, the net profit should be (-initial cost of investment + FY1 profit +FY2 profit), which should be -25000+24000+24000= 23000

The options given are
2/46/16k gain 50/2k loss.