Hello. I’m a Y12 student interested in becoming a theoretical physicist. I have been told time and time again that a maths degree is better preparation for theoretical physics. Does Oxford maths provide a good route into this? Cambridge obviously has a lot of theoretical physics courses in its maths degree, but what about Oxford? From looking at the website, I can tell that there are definitely applied maths/theoretical physics courses but not as much as Cambridge. They also don’t seem as comprehensive as Cambridge. Is the Oxford course too pure? Is that why they don’t have any mechanics on the MAT? As a side note, I haven’t been exposed to uni maths yet. From what I’ve heard, I think I would enjoy some aspects but I find myself more interested in physics in general and I don’t know whether I would enjoy such high levels of rigour. I also don’t know if I have the natural ability for this kind of maths. Do you guys think it’s worth doing a maths degree instead of a physics one just because it’s better prep, even if I think I would enjoy the physics degree more?