ELAT Tips: What your child needs to know to prepare We’ve put together our top ELAT tips on what your child needs to know before they sit the test. From the format to how your child should prepare, we’ve got all the information you need to know to support your child in this first step…
When Harry Potter and his friends realize dark and dangerous times lie ahead, they organize a group – Dumbledore’s Army – where they can practise defensive magic to prepare themselves for battle. However, as Hermione so keenly remembers, the most important advice Harry offers the DA is that no amount of rote learning can protect…
Interviews for English Literature often ask for the ‘close reading’ of a passage or text. I share some thoughts on how to do this well, and how to move beyond the methods learnt at school. Blog Entry: English at university involves zooming in and zooming out. In one essay, your arguments encompass a handful of…
Receiving necessary critique from ‘practical’ types can be exhausting – a guide on knowing what to expect, and how to react to the haters. So you’ve chosen an arts subject – may I be the first to say, good for you! I mean that in the genuine (somewhat American) way, without the slightest hint of…
So you love reading, you love literature and you have decided with these two loves to apply for a degree in English. Fantastic! However, I just want to ask – when you say you ‘love literature’, how much ‘literature’ are you referring to? Oxbridge courses will demand you to think about and write on a…
UniAdmissions is proud to announce the launch of the first book in The Ultimate Guide Series for 2015. Back in 2014, loads of you asked for even more questions and resources and not being ones to back down from a challenge, we’ve worked with nearly 100 tutors to produce 4 outstanding books for your benefit this year.…
English, as you must have realised by now, is all about multiplicity and different interpretations: as such, there is no standard “English Interview”, and no one answer that will wow all our subject’s academics. They could ask about x, or get you to talk about y: it varies from one person to another. Having applied…
