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Hi! Just got an interview from Oxford 
Just wondering if anyone has any mock questions I can use to train? Thanks !!
Just wondering if anyone has any mock questions I can use to train? Thanks !!
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Do you may conduct an interview? whith chemists? why do you want to ask mock questions? ask someone like me who wants to know something exactly. May I suggest some questions?
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(Original post by Kallisto)
Do you may conduct an interview? whith chemists? why do you want to ask mock questions? ask someone like me who wants to know something exactly. May I suggest some questions?
Do you may conduct an interview? whith chemists? why do you want to ask mock questions? ask someone like me who wants to know something exactly. May I suggest some questions?
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(Original post by Millymd)
What?
What?
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(Original post by Kallisto)
First I have to know who do you ask questions exactly. Is it a chemistry student? or even a chemist with a (certain) profession?
First I have to know who do you ask questions exactly. Is it a chemistry student? or even a chemist with a (certain) profession?
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(Original post by Millymd)
Anyone who has done an oxbridge chemistry interview or someone who knows about it.
Anyone who has done an oxbridge chemistry interview or someone who knows about it.
If that is the case, these would be my questions:
Did you have learn from the interview anything?
What was your feeling during the interview?
What did you fascinate most of all?
There were more questions, if its a person who is interest or engaged in chemistry.
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I've seen a live interview for chemistry for Cambridge and he got a candle out and asked loads of questions about the candle like work out how long this will burn for ect. Didn't matter if you got the answers right because the questions weren't based on anything you would know but they just wanted to see you have logical ways of attempting o work it out. But it was definitely more of a test than an interview.
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(Original post by Kallisto)
Do I have this right? do you conduct an interview with an interviewer?
If that is the case, these would be my questions:
Did you have learn from the interview anything?
What was your feeling during the interview?
What did you fascinate most of all?
There were more questions, if its a person who is interest or engaged in chemistry.
Do I have this right? do you conduct an interview with an interviewer?
If that is the case, these would be my questions:
Did you have learn from the interview anything?
What was your feeling during the interview?
What did you fascinate most of all?
There were more questions, if its a person who is interest or engaged in chemistry.
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(Original post by Plantagenet Crown)
It's quite hard to say because each college and interviewer will be different. My first interview for Oxford Chemistry 3 years ago was all to do with maths: differentiating sin and cos graphs and A level trigonometry.
The second interview consisted of a huge organic molecule and being asked to draw the mechanism for electron pushing to complete it.
So yeah, despite the stereotype, I wasn't asked any of those weird, abstract questions like how many atoms in a brussel sprout etc
It's quite hard to say because each college and interviewer will be different. My first interview for Oxford Chemistry 3 years ago was all to do with maths: differentiating sin and cos graphs and A level trigonometry.
The second interview consisted of a huge organic molecule and being asked to draw the mechanism for electron pushing to complete it.
So yeah, despite the stereotype, I wasn't asked any of those weird, abstract questions like how many atoms in a brussel sprout etc
(Original post by L'Evil Fish)
Lol wtf are you on?
Lol wtf are you on?
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(Original post by L'Evil Fish)
Lol wtf are you on?
Lol wtf are you on?
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(Original post by Kallisto)
By the look of it I have minsinterpreted the topic.
I am afraid, its true. What the term interview means exactly in terms of University or something which is added with? is it not a 'classical' interview how its conducted in journalism?
By the look of it I have minsinterpreted the topic.
I am afraid, its true. What the term interview means exactly in terms of University or something which is added with? is it not a 'classical' interview how its conducted in journalism?
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Tell me about some of the activities you regularly partake to maintain your interest and ability in Chemistry?
What was the last book you read? (If you say a title that you mentioned on your personal statement, it makes you look like a week candidate)
Why do you want to study Chemistry?
What area of Chemistry interests you most and why?
Talk to me about an area of popular Chemistry (i.e. in the news or recent discovery) for 1 minute?
On the open day, they mentioned a question from a previous round of admissions: you know Avogadro’s number is 6.02x1023, but can you suggest a method to prove this?
What was the last book you read? (If you say a title that you mentioned on your personal statement, it makes you look like a week candidate)
Why do you want to study Chemistry?
What area of Chemistry interests you most and why?
Talk to me about an area of popular Chemistry (i.e. in the news or recent discovery) for 1 minute?
On the open day, they mentioned a question from a previous round of admissions: you know Avogadro’s number is 6.02x1023, but can you suggest a method to prove this?
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(Original post by Blazar)
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of another kind of interview. What people are discussing here is going to a university and then being interviewed by someone from the university who specialises in chemistry. It's not like a journalistic interview; it's more to see whether you're good at the subject. They give you chemistry questions to look at and see how you solve them. This kind of interview is more of an assessment, and the university uses it to help them decide who they want to offer places to.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of another kind of interview. What people are discussing here is going to a university and then being interviewed by someone from the university who specialises in chemistry. It's not like a journalistic interview; it's more to see whether you're good at the subject. They give you chemistry questions to look at and see how you solve them. This kind of interview is more of an assessment, and the university uses it to help them decide who they want to offer places to.
By all means I hope that you will find your ideal chemistry study, Millymd.
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(Original post by Millymd)
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(Original post by Plantagenet Crown)
So yeah, despite the stereotype, I wasn't asked any of those weird, abstract questions like how many atoms in a brussel sprout etc
So yeah, despite the stereotype, I wasn't asked any of those weird, abstract questions like how many atoms in a brussel sprout etc
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