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20 Words and Phrases Your Examiners Are Tired of Reading and What to Say Instead
Examiners have to read countless essays each year. When you think about it from their point of view, they probably get pretty bored of reading answers to the same questions over and over again.
6 Jobs You May Not Realise Veterinarians Do
When you think of becoming a veterinarian (or typically just “vet” in the UK), you probably think of private practice, such as caring for people’s pets. If you’re thinking of more exotic veterinary careers, you might have thought about veterinary medicine for farm or zoo animals.
10 Ways to Represent Information and How to Make the Most of Them | Oxford Royale Summer Schools
In school, university, and the workplace -no matter the level academically, or the nature of the work- making yourself understood clearly is vital.
The Top 10 Languages Everyone Should Consider Learning
Are you thinking of learning a new language? We’ve written a great deal about learning languages in the past, especially English, from how to revise for a language exam to how to learn English faster.
Oxbridge Law Applications: the Ultimate Guide, Written by a Top Oxford Law Graduate
About the Author Samantha Love read Law at Merton College, Oxford, and is currently following the BCL course. Oxford and Cambridge are well known for requiring a perpetual balancing act between spending time in the library and dressing up for dinners and balls.
How to Choose the Right University for You: the Ultimate Guide
Choosing which university you want to attend is one of the most important decisions of your life so far. However, the overwhelming choice available to you can make the decision a difficult one. With 116 universities to choose from in the UK alone, to say nothing of overseas universities, you’ll need to be strategic to […]
Science Revision Tips for GCSE and A-level Students from a Cambridge Graduate
About the author Philippa Logan read Natural Sciences (specialising in Chemistry) at Newnham College, Cambridge. Hermione Granger was essentially doing science A-levels. Except in her case, they were NEWTs (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests), and instead of doing the conventional Physics, Chemistry and Biology, she was taking more intriguing subjects: Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Charms, Defence against […]
The Best UK University For…
Choosing a university can be a time-consuming process, and one that’s made harder by the huge choice of top institutions available to you. Your decisions will be shaped by your personal priorities, and that makes it impossible for others – including us! – to advise you on which is the right university for you. However, […]
4 Things That University Admissions Tutors Don't Care About (And What They Focus On Instead)
It’s perhaps because writing the personal statement presents such a challenge for university applicants that there are so many myths surrounding what you should and shouldn’t write on it. It’s the aspect of the application process that most worries students (with the possible exception of interviews), but even a little knowledge of what exactly it […]