Oxford TSA 2017 Applicants Thread (02.11.2016)

#? (answered Greeks take their morality from poetry, something as well as religion) morality and religion question.

#? (answered “nourishing and appealing”) about the food of the prisoners, who don’t eat too much or refuse eating because of the quality / lack of variety of food in prisons.

#? (answer E. customers don’t read the term and conditions) about customer advisers in stores who are misleading the customers into buying products. Answer A. was companies have been fined in the past for misleading customers.

#? (answered that they would recognize those “mis…whatever” facial expressions) asking for the assumption. When meeting in a supermarket, rather than lying and deceiving, tell them straight out that you don’t know who they are otherwise they will recognize you don’t know them because of your facial expressions (which in the argument are called “mis..something”).

#? (answered consumers and charities would lose out) if the 1p coins were to be withdrawn from the circulation, because of the apparent no use, taking too much space, nothing being worth 1 penny etc.

#? (answered because of Africa’s economy and lions/lionesses attacking large cattles?) question about Africa compared to Europe. Argument ended: “Why wouldn’t they?” (like be the same as in Europe, or something). Answer E. was about scarcity and large games. Trying to make sense between A. and E. was a pain.

#44 or #48 (answered the longest answer from the five answers) was with an enormous graph, and what you could infer from it.

#1 (answer D.) main conclusion. Government needs to put measurements into place / must equip or prepare adequately for flooding

# 2 (answer C. 18) odd dart game. Throw 3x and always get exactly 50. Other numbers were 14, 8, 30, 31, 22?

#18 (answer C. 83 km) shortest road through 3 cities then return home. Answer D. was 86 km.

#19 (answer B. 1724) accident statistics, some fatal other not. Quite convoluted with a bunch of numbers and percentages also, but written as a critical thinking question.

#25 (answer C. 4) four coffees and five teas. What was the minimum the drink machine could charge per transaction. Five teas (his friends) = 81 p, four coffees (him/her) = 121 p. Answers were: A.1 B.2 C.4 D.6 E.14.

#26 (answer B. letter W) four geometric forms to give a hexagon? Which one is not part of it.

#35 (answer D.) dice showing letters A,B,C,D,E,F. Answer B. close too.

#38 (answer B. Eve) can’t recall the problem, sad, I know. Answers A. and B. close.

#43 (answer E. Renault, I believe) choosing the model of a car. Engine had to be at least 1.6, thus B. and D. could be eliminated quickly. They wanted a car with four or five doors, however all the cars in the timetable had three doors!! Answers A. Rover (maybe?) and C. Wolkswagen could very well be.

For #25 I'm sure the numbers did not both end in one. Otherwise the answer could have been A.

For #25 I'm sure the numbers did not both end in one.

Does anyone know when the actual paper and answers get released?

I got D, 6p.

Question was - i got 5 coffees for 81p. My friendo got 4 teas for 62p. [we both paid a fixed charge]. What is the minimum value that charge could have taken?

A, 1 B, 2 C, 4 D, 6 E, 14

I got D, 6p.

Question was - i got 5 coffees for 81p. My friendo got 4 teas for 62p. [we both paid a fixed charge]. What is the minimum value that charge could have taken?

A, 1 B, 2 C, 4 D, 6 E, 14

#1 (answer D.) main conclusion. Government needs to put measurements into place / must equip or prepare adequately for flooding

# 2 (answer C. 18) odd dart game. Throw 3x and always get exactly 50. Other numbers were 14, 8, 30, 31, 22?

#18 (answer C. 83 km) shortest road through 3 cities then return home. Answer D. was 86 km.

#19 (answer B. 1724) accident statistics, some fatal other not. Quite convoluted with a bunch of numbers and percentages also, but written as a critical thinking question.

#25 (answer C. 4) four coffees and five teas. What was the minimum the drink machine could charge per transaction. Five teas (his friends) = 81 p, four coffees (him/her) = 121 p. Answers were: A.1 B.2 C.4 D.6 E.14.

#26 (answer B. letter W) four geometric forms to give a hexagon? Which one is not part of it.

#35 (answer D.) dice showing letters A,B,C,D,E,F. Answer B. close too.

#38 (answer B. Eve) can’t recall the problem, sad, I know. Answers A. and B. close.

#43 (answer E. Renault, I believe) choosing the model of a car. Engine had to be at least 1.6, thus B. and D. could be eliminated quickly. They wanted a car with four or five doors, however all the cars in the timetable had three doors!! Answers A. Rover (maybe?) and C. Wolkswagen could very well be.

Regarding #25 I am a hundred percent convinced four coffees were 121 p, whereas five teas (his friends) paid 81 p, that's "why" he decided to look into it (AKA come up with that type of problem lol).

#? (answered Greeks take their morality from poetry, something as well as religion) morality and religion question.

#? (answered that they would recognize those “mis…whatever” facial expressions) asking for the assumption. When meeting in a supermarket, rather than lying and deceiving, tell them straight out that you don’t know who they are otherwise they will recognize you don’t know them because of your facial expressions (which in the argument are called “mis..something”).

Regarding #25 I am a hundred percent convinced four coffees were 121 p, whereas five teas (his friends) paid 81 p, that's "why" he decided to look into it (AKA come up with that type of problem lol).

I thought the conclusion of this was why we don't need religion for morality, and the Greeks were used an example of forming morality without religion. I chose the answer that said the Greeks questioned the point of morality. Very possibly wrong.


The conclusion was that you should just tell someone know if you don't remember them, so I thought the assumption would be that people would prefer you to be honest rather than to pretend to recognise them. Again, very uncertain.

Is it possible for people to have done different versions of the paper? It would explain some of the discrepancies in how people are remembering questions.

Agree on first point, as the question was what point weakens the argument iirc.
Disagree on the second one, as I'm pretty sure that the the most key assumption was that people would recognise the micro expressions as this is necessary for them to know that you were lying anyways, whereas the second point is lower order to some extent