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@@bb-jj6zg The thing I did was just find whatever I could on mainly studential. It's not super useful for figuring out what to put in your own PS considering that most of the stuff you put should be *personal*, but it at least gave me a good idea of what a personal statement should ideally look like! I will say though, for oxbridge in particular, your entrance exam is the main thing they look at and the rest is a bonus pretty much. Know a dude who got a B in Further Maths and got into CS at Cambridge just becase of his absolutely expetional exam results, so focus on that to improve your oods

The numerical score (not the percentage nor fraction of questions right) is calculated on a curve based on how EVERYONE did for that particular year's exam. You cannot say for certain what your score will be, and it does not matter either because the threshold at which interviews will be offered will vary from year to year based on test difficulty and how many candidates scored in the top x percentile. Best to focus on aiming for a perfect score!

Sorry, there was a small mistake here. The Ledd laptop meets the requirements, but I mistakenly eliminated it. However, between Ledd and Elovon, you have to choose the CHEAPEST option, because that's in the second paragraph of the question. The cheapest option that meets this person's requirements is NOT Ledd.

Great question - this is due to rounding. You can see in the question that it states 'rounded to the nearest 0.1g'. This would lead to inprecision in using smaller values like salt (0.2g). There's typically 1.4g of salt in 100g of oatcakes, 1.4/7 (for 21 oatcakes total) gives you 0.2g per oatcake, but 1.4/8 (for 24 oatcakes total) gives you 0.175g per oatcake, which would be rounded to 0.2g in the table. This is one of those where you can also double check your answer by multiplying the energy (53kcal) by the number (i.e., 7 or 8) to verify your answer. Multiplication is arguably easier than division so that's why it's used to check the answer.

@@youyouxue That steps up the questions difficulty. Thank you for your help- I need to double check problem solving answers in that case!

@@bob820 My advice is just to remember to assess ALL the information given in a question. Was the information about all the values rounded to 0.1g an extra (and surpurfluous) detail? Or was it critical information?

i did it this way as well

Good luck tomorrow

Hey! Did you get in?

@@houseofballoons4788 Hi! Miraculously, I actually did!

Really so happy for you - congratulations and hope you'll consider posting a video with your application experience and journey!

@@youyouxue Thank you again so much, will never forget your help! I might not have your video talents though!

@@samjames8006 Congrats, Sam! May i please know your TSA score? I’m also planning to apply for PPE and would really appreciate it if you could give me some tips regarding the process of applying to Oxford.

Sorry to hear that - I know how upsetting a rejection before interview is. I hope you were at least able to take some value away from the TSA, even if it was merely educational value. Your journey to uni doesn't end here so keep working hard!

@@youyouxue Thanks for your kindness! I definitely was able to take away some good things from the TSA, for one thing AP exams will feel like a piece of cake in comparison and also I feel like improved my ability to asses arguments! I don't regret going thru the application process it was well worth it.

Invitations are sent out last week of November. You have approximately 2-3 weeks to prepare, depending on your subject. However, there isn't much to "prepare" for - interviews are about how you think, and not necessarily what you know.

@@youyouxue Thank you!

To know when to stop studying. Seriously. No one is going to see significant improvement in one week, especially the last week before the exam. We discussed other stress-management techniques in Workshop V, so please take a look.

We have less than one week left before the 2021 TSA on 4 Nov 2021. If you want the honest answer - I don't think there's much you can do to significantly improve your score at this point. Memorisation of the seven critical thinking question types is perhaps one of the easiest ways to gain points and complete the test faster. I have also provided links to the five workshops, and it may benefit you to watch all of them.

I’m aware that it’s a bit late but here you go: www.admissionstesting.org/Images/616960-past-paper-tsa-oxford-2020-section-1.pdf

to be fair the 90 minutes doesn't seem like enough, but I've found that practising critical thinking questions a lot helps? So if you practise doing 25 timed CT questions and try to do them as quickly as possible, you're giving yourself more time to do the problem solving questions which usually take longer. Aiming to finish 25 CT questions in 20 minutes-ish would give you a really good amount of time to attempt all the PS (but it usually takes me more like half an hour and I find I still have time to do most of the PS so don't worry too much: the quicker you do them the better, but you don't want to rush too much because you might make mistakes). Also, if a question seems like it's going to take ages, or you have to do a load of maths, just leave it and move on - all questions are worth the same amount of marks so you don't want to run out of time to do some of the easier questions by spending ages on one maths one.

If it helps, it's discussed more in workshop I.

Looking forward to it - PPE/E&M applicants will receive invitations to interview in the latter week of the last week of November.

Just took it and feeling pretty good about it! Only had to guess on 3 of the PS ones at the end, way better than my practices!! Hope to see you sometime later this month for interview practice!

@@schloop3828 how did you do?

Yes, absolutely. However, we have assigned past *TSA* papers for now. I think BMAT papers can be saved for later practice when you completely run out of TSA practice questions. Quality over quantity, it's not about doing the most number of questions, but about your strategy.

I think there is an easier way: since orps have no tails, a + u = 33 meaning there are 12 orps. 99- (12x2) = 75 and 75/3 = 25. Then 45-25-12=8

@@didier9164 Yeah, I tried setting up 3 equations by myself and managed to solve it way quicker in just 5 lines. It's all about the order in which you plug in and out.

Glad to hear - I am from the US as well. The TSA is absolutely critical for getting an interview, it's not just an SAT or ACT score!

did you get in????

I have no idea what ACER/UniTest is. What I *can* tell you is that the only "official" questions are provided by Cambridge Assessment, the writers of the test. There are hundreds and hundreds of practice questions available. Practice is about quality, not quantity. You can do every practice test available and learn nothing if you don't focus on the structure of the test and your solving strategies.

@@youyouxue yeah I know that- and thanks for the reply. Since Cambridge Assessment is involved in making the UniTest, do you think the tsa questions are worth practicing, are they going to be similar?

We will go over interview tips in a future workshop after late November (when people receive invites for interview)