Tuition Services
· Course and College choice
As you may have read about here, there are a multitude of courses and colleges to choose from at Oxford.
Oxford Success provides one-to-one consultancy sessions to allow the student to explore the array of undergraduate degree course options. Our unique questionnaire will determine the colleges most suited to our students, whilst our tutors recommend the courses best suited to our students' A-Level, Baccalaureate, or Pre-U choices and their academic interests. Oxford Success provide bespoke guided tours of the universities, colleges, and subject faculties to further ensure our students are confident they are making the right choices in their application. This is the critical first step: the suitability of the course and college selected will develop the pupil’s love for the subject and enthusiasm for the future university experience that every successful application requires.
· Private tuition
The academic calibre of applicants to Oxford requires some beating, as you might have seen here.
All Oxford Success tutors have personal experience of the benefits of the Oxford tutorial system. Our science graduates know what it is to work in cutting-edge fields of research in well-funded labs; our humanitarian students know the worth of the numerous libraries; our linguists, the advantage of learning through exposure to the language first-hand whilst abroad. Carefully selected content will prepare our students for the work that would be expected of them at Oxford, and the nature of the tuition will familiarise them with the tutorial format. As interviews often replicate an undergraduate tutorial, these sessions help our students' interview performance by broadening their academic grounding and by generating greater comfort with the interview format.
A-Level, Baccalaureate, and Pre-U tuition and revision sessions are also available. This is ideal for upper sixth students looking to meet their conditional offers at a university, for lower sixth students hoping to score as highly as possible in their AS-Levels, or for those sitting retakes to improve their grades.
· Personal statement
The importance of the personal statement to the entire application can be read about here.
It is crucial that the core of the personal statement is written by the student: conveying personal achievements and personal interests cannot be adequately done by a third party, however well informed. For this reason, Oxford Success does not write personal statements for our students from scratch. Instead, through initial advice and providing textbook examples we develop the skills necessary for a student to write a successful personal statement for their subject; by providing a comprehensive evaluation of the statement before submission, Oxford Success ensures every personal statement reaches its full potential. The final product is a personal statement that highlights the best aspects of the applicant’s academic calibre and potential, yet maintains their individuality.
· Written work and entrance exams
As you may read about here, submitting written work and taking entrance exams are now key parts of many applications.
Preparation and assistance for both written work and exams could radically improve performance. A good choice of essays to submit will complement the rest of the application, whilst a high score in the entrance exams is a prerequisite for acceptance to many courses. Oxford Success will review our students' written work and select those they believe to best supplement the rest of the application; by giving in-depth feedback on the work Oxford Success allows students to enrich their essays prior to submission. Oxford Success also offer practice sessions and mock tests to help students prepare for entrance exams. By increasing their confidence and helping to perfect their technique, Oxford Success ensures students better express their ability in these unique exams.
A list of the entrance papers that are required for various courses can be found here.
· Interview practice
To understand the interview process you must first deconstruct the mystique that surrounds it, as you may have found out here.
Oxford Success tutors remember, only too clearly, the frantic preparation, the weeks of building tension and, most acutely, the nerves of the interview. Our tutors all also remember something quite different too: the exhilaration of exploring their subject further, of having discourse with world-renowned minds, and of the tantalising questions left open at the end giving a new appetite for learning. It is this insight into the interview that separates Oxford Success from other university preparation services. We don't train our students what to say, but teach them how to experience the interview: how to think, reflect, and respond. By encouraging our students to learn from the interview and to demonstrate that learning in the brief time they have with their interviewers, we give them the ultimate advantage: we display the brightness of their academic future. After such an interview, the whole application takes on a new aspect: no longer a record of past glory but the springboard for new and greater achievement. After such an interview, the applicants are longer a routinely intelligent individual but an intelligent individual willing and able to absorb the maximum amount of information Oxford has to offer. After such an interview, the University of Oxford would look forward to further teaching the interviewee, and be proud to make them an offer.
For more information on any of the above please call us on 0800 998 7198 or email us at info@oxfordsuccess.com.