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Oxbridge interview questions: are you clever enough?
Despite the entry grades for Oxbridge now being tougher than ever, the exams are the easy bit. Students are really put to the test at interview. Could you win a place to study alongside the academic elite?
As the deadline for Oxbridge applications looms, and with it news that many courses will now require students to have a minimum of two A*s, students applying to the two most prestigious British universities have never had it tougher.
Once invited to interview they face yet more challenges in the form of tricky and obscure interview questions. In a new book, Do you still think you're clever?, John Farndon, a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, asks, and answers, a selection of questions posed to interviewees. We've selected some of most difficult examples and challenge you to have a go at answering them.
If there were three beautiful, naked women standing in front of you, which one would you pick? And does it have any relevance to economics? (PPE, Oxford)
Will this bag ever be empty? (Natural Sciences, Cambridge)
Instead of politicians, why don't we let the managers of Ikea run the country? (Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge)
Is the moon made of green cheese? (Veterinary Sciences, Cambridge)
If a wife had expressed distaste for it previously, would her husband's habit of putting marmalade in his egg at breakfast be grounds for divorce? (Law, Cambridge)
Are you clever enough to answer these questions? Do you think these are the sorts of challenges we should be putting to the country's top minds?
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