Monday, October 20, 2008

If you were a grapefruit, would you be seedless?

According to the reports, if you have trouble answering that question, sorry, but maybe Cambridge isn't for you. So I've decided to give a go to some of the weird questions which universities ask during the admission interviews.

1) Would you rather be a novel or a poem? (English, Oxford)
Neither. I rather be a human. Ok, I rather be a novel because I can't rhyme very well.

2) How many monkeys would you use in an experiment? (Experimental Psychology, Oxford)
Depends what kind of experiment. If it can be conducted on humans, all the better. But I would say I cannot answer that question if I do not know what I was trying to experiment on. Power and sample size is very important in experiments you know. Besides, do I have ethical approval anot?

3) How does Geography relate to A Midsummer Night's Dream? (Geography, Oxford)
WTF? A midsummer Night's dream happened on earth?

4) How do you organise a successful revolution? (History, Oxford)
Never join the PAP. EVER. Change is a bad word.

5) Talk about a light bulb. (Engineering, Oxford)
MPs will never change a one because all they do is promise change. =D

6)What would you do if you were a magpie? (Natural Sciences, Cambridge)
I would be cheering for Newcastle Utd at St James Park/Power Station every wk.

7) Should we have laws for the use of lightbulbs? (Law, Cambridge)
Yes, use when necessary.

8) Instead of politicians, why don't we let the managers of Ikea run the country?
(Social Political Science, Cambridge)
Sure, if you want to confuse your citizens by making your country look like a maze.

9) If I were a grapefruit would I rather be seedless or non-seedless? (Medicine, Cambridge)
I rather be non-seedless. That means I'm natural and healthy right?

I wonder how I fared on the admission test. Hahahaha.

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