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What sort of work experience and supercurriculars for English?

My sixth form has a mandatory three day work experience program, and I am looking for reccommendations that will make my UCAS applciation even more competitive.
I currently am going to partake in UNIQ with Oxford University, and have a BBC 'Get In' work experience day, obviously reading a ton, and doing essay competitions, but need more suggestions.
I thought about going to my local Waterstones for the three day placement but is there anything better?
(excluding anything library related, my local library actually sucks I hate it there)

(edited 8 months ago)

Reply 1

Clearing and Applications Advisor

no work experience is going to boost your application for an academic English degree.

Find something you think will be interesting that you want to try out - do it for your own interest and not to boost your application

If you're looking for supercurriculars then attending plays/watching NT live adaptions/listening to radio adaptions/watching film and tv adaptions etc of books you've studied is useful to see how the same text can be interpreted and presented. The key with all supercurriculars is to reflect on what you've done not just list it off. Was it interesting/challenging? Did it make you see things differently? Did it lead you on to something else?