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Re:The Oxford maths interview, shaking up admissions by OJFord on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:30PM (#11221419)
[At least when I took them a few years ago] the admissions offices get your raw results anyway - so even if it was just 'A', they could still have their own internal A* for 90+.

Surprised nobody's mentioned STEP, three exams at least two of which are required for the mathematics tripos (and I think engineering at some colleges) and is significantly more likely to require preparation.

I don't think any applicant would be worried about FM - because if they were worried about anything it would (should) be STEP.

But then, uh, I may be biased...

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Re:The Oxford maths interview, shaking up admissions by aninhumer on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:23AM (#11223531)
>the admissions offices get your raw results anyway - so even if it was just 'A', they could still have their own internal A* for 90+.

But as I understand it, they can't make an offer based on that, so they're already obliged to accept you by the time they get those results.

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