Oxford PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Students and Applicants

What kind of options is Maths relevant to? Would it be just physics and computer science, or does chemistry count as well?

The maths in a biology interview thing sounds interesting... I was wondering about the interviews in general - is the whole thing academic and knowledge-based, or do they ask you about yourself, your motivations etc. as well?

I'm thinking it would be good to go through a physics textbook or two just in case. Who knows, I might find it really interesting

I was wondering about the interviews in general - is the whole thing academic and knowledge-based, or do they ask you about yourself, your motivations etc. as well?

I had a whole interview that was about me - not academic or knowledge-based. (Of course then I had academic interviews too )

You want to be packing at least 1GB of dedicated graphics memory for that Microsoft Calculator.

Actually memory is not the most important part of a graphics card. What determines if a memory card is powerful or not is its GPU (effective clock speed and number of pipelines). There are top end graphics card with only 512 mb of memory that run all present games well.

Hi,

Sorry to bother you all but I need some advice. Basically, I'm choosing my A level options and initially I wanted to take both History and Politics but I've just found out that I can't take both soo I was wondering which you thought would be better for PPE. Also, bear in mind that I haven't taken History GCSE.

The other subjects I'm taking are Maths, Further Maths, Economics and English Lit.

Thanks for your help!

Trying to convince them of your passion for it whilst having dropped it is perhaps a little bit difficult... If you want to do PPE you prob need to do keep it up. But that's only my opinion - you should do what you enjoy and feel you will do best in.

Please feel free to let me know if you have anything else I can help with!

Easy answer to this question = whichever you would prefer to do.

They are both essay based subjects and you certainly don't need either to get in so take which one you prefer. History is a more 'traditional' subject, but with Maths, FM, Econ and Eng. Lit it isn't going to make much of a difference.

Btw - that's a lot of A Levels you are taking right there! Don't do them to make your UCAS look beefy and exciting, only choose subjects you definitely want to do!

Thank you! To be honest, I would be happy with doing either History or Politics. I love them both so I'm really stuck! Also, it seems that most people who go on to do PPE have taken History, rather than Politics. Do you think unis prefer that?

Don't worry, I love all my subjects! And our school makes us do 5 subjects.

With the amount of traditional subjects you're doing, I doubt they will even consider you doing politics a problem.

I got in with Politics, Maths, Biology to A2 and Chemistry to AS so go figure. 3 sciences and politics.