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English Literature. Gothic Literature. Keats. The History Boys. English Literature. Alan Bennett's new play is not just about history - it makes history | Stage. School shapes our ends - almost literally so in the case of the more sexually promiscuous male public schools. How and where you were educated has a big influence on your whole life. I might not have ended up a critic (a prospect some will entertain with relish) had it not been for a trio of English teachers who fostered a love of theatre and analysis. I can also date my political awakening from the moment a peculiarly detested fellow pupil burst into my public school classroom the day after the 1951 general election shouting: "We're in" - meaning, of course, the Tories. His arrogant assumption that we were all of the same persuasion meant I became a lifelong Labourite on the spot. The idea of school as the formative period of your life is one of many notions threading through Alan Bennett's The History Boys.
For a start, it's the only school-play in English drama that is about the process of teaching. His 1980s grammar school is an image of Thatcherite Britain. Shakespearean Comedy. Personal finance. My Cambridge Interview Experience. Okay, as promised, I think I’ll share a bit about my experience in having an interview in Cambridge. Unlike a lot of other universities that only have ‘interviews’ as in ‘we just want to see your face and have a chat’ session, in Cambridge you’ll need to expect a proper, serious interview.
Only then will they decide on giving you an offer. Or not. Before I start, I just need to say that this is just my recount of my own interview, so it should by no means be treated as ‘a definitive guide to Cambridge interviews’ or something like that, since there are different types of interviews and I only know about my own. To clarify, I applied to Cambridge to do Chemical Engineering. It started when I looked at the Cambridge prospectus to prepare for the application process. Pretty funny that even without prior knowledge, I end up in one of the richer, bigger and more famous of the lot. a) failing to be eloquent and charming or So I went there, stayed the night, and did the test the next day.
Yaz. Cambridge Interview. 40 Oxbridge interview questions « Molivam42's Weblog. As this week’s theme is inequality I thought I would do something about those two venerable institutions – the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. There have been a lot of press features recently about the infamous Oxbridge Interview, famous for its obscure and often surreal questions that have terrorised students down the years. They are designed to see if you can think on your feet and as the saying goes: “When you walk into the interview, the fellow throws you a rugby ball. If you drop it or it hits you in the face, you are out, if you catch it, you are in, and if you drop kick it back, you get a scholarship.” I decided to look on the Internet to see if I could find some examples and here is my selection of forty of these questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
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