One of the best ways to support your students is to create a bank of resources for them to use in their application. This page will help you start your library with useful resources that cover the whole Oxbridge admissions process, ensuring your students have easy access to everything they need to start their preparation.
Whether you’re a seasoned expert or are working with Oxbridge applicants for the first time, there are still ways that you can improve your school’s support systems for your student’s applications to ensure they improve their chances of gaining their offer. This guide is designed to get you started on your journey to becoming an Oxbridge expert for your students.
Different students have different needs, and some of your students may need support from Oxbridge in order to study there. Whether it’s accessibility, financial support or help for international applicants, there are a variety of options available to those who have the academic potential to study at Oxbridge but face disadvantages in other areas. This guide will inform you of the various support options offered by Oxbridge so you can ensure all of your students have a fair chance at gaining their place at Oxford or Cambridge.
With how competitive the Oxbridge application process is, your students need more than a high-quality Personal Statement, high admissions test scores and effective interview techniques. Applicants need to further engage with the subject in extra-curricular activities, a process we call enrichment. This guide will help you support your students through a wide variety of activities that will help them develop into an ideal Oxbridge candidate.
There are many things that your students can do to bulk up their Oxbridge application, with one of the most difficult but most impressive being to enter an academic competition. Oxford and Cambridge host many competitions for a variety of subjects, many of which are aimed at university applicants. This guide will show you some of the main competitions that your students can enter.
Writing Academic References is the part of the application process that is most dependent on you, the teacher. However, just as Oxbridge applicants are expected to meet Oxbridge standards within their application, you too must write a reference that reflects your student as a capable candidate for their course. This guide will help you create the perfect academic reference for your prospective Oxbridge students.
The Oxbridge Interview is the final stage of most applicant’s journey. After this the admissions teams will decide who receives and offer and who does not, so a lot of pressure will be put on your applicants to perform well. This guide will show you how the process works, what they should expect from their interviews and how you can support them in their preparation.
As a teacher, you will support students with their UCAS Personal Statements every year, but what about Personal Statements for Oxbridge applications? In this guide, we will explore what makes an Oxbridge Personal Statement different, what your students should and shouldn’t do when writing and how you can mark and provide feedback to make their statements good enough for Oxford and Cambridge.
As a teacher, you should already have a good understanding of the UCAS application process. However, this process is different (and more challenging) for those applying to Oxford or Cambridge, as well as UK medical schools. In this guide, you will learn about the unique obstacles that face your Oxbridge applicants and how you can support them through the UCAS process.
The majority of applicants for Oxford and Cambridge will be required to sit one of the many admissions tests used by the universities, so it’s important to have a good understanding of what these tests entail. This guide will explain how and why admissions tests are used and will provide you with an overview for each of the admissions tests used by Oxbridge.
Data is at the heart of many of life’s big decisions, with university applications being no different. This guide will teach you how to find and analyse application data from Oxford and Cambridge in order to help you and your student’s understand the Oxbridge application process better than the competition.
What is Oxbridge? You may have been asked this question by your students, as well as countless other questions about the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This guide will take you through the key information you need to know to support any prospective Oxbridge student with their application, allowing you to guide them to success.
It has been announced that a series of admissions tests used by the University of Oxford will no longer be administered by Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing. Find out what is happening and how this will affect your application.
On January 12th 2023, UCAS announced that the traditional Personal Statement would be replaced by a multi-question form for university applications. Find out how this will work, when it will happen and how it will affect your application.
The BMAT, NSAA, and ENGAA are all being discontinued by Cambridge Assessments Admissions Testing as of 2024. Find out everything we know about the situation so far, including how this change will affect your application.
