All statements about University of Oxford

36 statements about University of Oxford in 12 sources, by upload date.

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2018

2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — Ali was introduced to Reasons to be Cheerful when his friend Sahil, a medic at Oxford, invited him to a live recording of the podcast. — 00:04:29
2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali says some Oxbridge colleges are all about research, but interviewers at almost all universities prefer medicine applicants who see being a doctor as caring for patients rather than a route into research. — 00:02:58
2018-04-02 · Pakistan Society Ball - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #28 — Ali puts attendance at the 2018 Cambridge Pakistan Society Ball at about 250 people, 35 of them down from Oxford. (hedged) — 00:00:29
2018-04-02 · Pakistan Society Ball - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #28 — Ali: The morning after the Pakistan Society Ball, the Cambridge and Oxford groups traditionally meet for brunch at Pembroke College. — 00:05:34
2018-04-02 · Pakistan Society Ball - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #28 — Ali describes the Pakistan Society Ball as the one big event of the year celebrating Pakistani culture, with performances and good food, and a chance to meet friends from Oxford, LSE and other universities. — 00:06:04
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says that even if you miss the university you wanted, such as Oxford, Cambridge or Imperial, you will be as happy as if you had gone there, a comforting thought that helped him cope with worrying about the future. — 00:12:09
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali's one best tip for an Oxford interview: think out loud. — 00:05:00
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali: Examples of raising the salience of the outcome, says Ali: viewers watch his Cambridge videos or Ibz Mo's to stay motivated, and his brother kept a picture of Oxford as his desktop wallpaper. — 00:21:17
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali calls it a myth that you need extracurriculars for Oxford or Cambridge: they look for massive nerds who are really good at their subject, not well-rounded people with Grade 8 piano or Team GB rowing. — 00:24:15
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali's rough rule of thumb: for Oxford or Cambridge be at least in the top five of your year group; for medicine generally, in the top 10 or 20 percent. — 00:15:32
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali advises applicants not to look at the admission statistics of Cambridge and Oxford colleges, which he calls pretty irrelevant. — 00:49:49
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For a surgical clerkship Ali likes the very readable book Surgical Talk, plus the Oxford handbook. — 00:54:39
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Asked whether young students should already think about universities, Ali says do what you like: he had his heart set on Oxford or Cambridge from quite a young age. — 00:07:25
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: The average BMAT score of successful Oxbridge candidates is about six, in the low sixes, Ali says, so getting that is pretty good. — 00:19:37
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: For the clinical years of medicine Ali really likes the book Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery. — 00:20:23

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2017

2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Ali Abdaal (channel): Oxford and Cambridge are very similar, so the advice on applying to Cambridge for medicine applies to Oxford too, including the academic course and the stereotypes. — video description
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Ali says that in his years of helping students with medicine applications he has often heard that they are reluctant to apply to Cambridge or Oxford for fear of the negative stereotypes and of not fitting in. — 00:04:23
2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — Ali says media stories, such as Cambridge students burning money in front of homeless people and weird interview questions, make Oxford and Cambridge look like places for other people. — 00:04:35
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student says the key to medicine interview preparation is being comfortable and confident: Cambridge and Oxford throw curveballs, and the only preparation is a mindset that lets you think things through and reply concisely. — 00:05:08
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents himself and seven medical student friends on their experiences of the Cambridge medicine interview, for applicants to Cambridge or Oxford. — 00:00:00
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents tips for the Oxbridge medicine interview from nine medical students. — 00:00:00
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — Ali says his Oxford friends unanimously agreed that every tip for the Cambridge medicine interview also applies to the Oxford one, as the two are pretty much identical. — 00:00:00
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, answers questions viewers sent in about the Oxford and Cambridge medicine interviews. — 00:00:00
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says Oxbridge medicine applicants need not learn all their A2 biology and chemistry ahead, since interviews come a few months into year 13, but should know well what they have covered. — 00:00:53
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says Cambridge gives applicants a supplementary questionnaire to say which subjects they have done, while Oxford does not really. — 00:00:53
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali advises applicants who get a topic they have not covered, such as the kidneys, or a mind blank, to say so nicely, offer to have a go and then try, rather than bluff. — 00:07:10
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says Oxford and Cambridge interviewers want applicants to feel they are in a teaching session, and are happy to teach a topic the applicant has not met. — 00:07:10
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says mental health is definitely scientific: psychiatry is a medical specialty with a big scientific basis, and Oxbridge no longer looks down on it, as it maybe did 20 years ago. — 00:07:39
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says mental health at Oxford and Cambridge is particularly in the limelight because of higher rates of mental health problems and suicide attempts at such high-achieving institutions. — 00:09:07
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says most Cambridge and Oxford colleges he knows are good at dealing with mental health, and people he knows with mental health issues found support there, so Oxbridge and mental health are not incompatible. — 00:09:07
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says the best preparation for the Oxbridge medicine interview is mock interviews with friends, giving them a list of questions and asking them to challenge you scientifically. — 00:09:41
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says the Oxford and Cambridge interviews are genuinely hard to prepare for actively, since they rest on what you come out with on the day; there is no silver bullet. — 00:10:44
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says the Oxbridge interview works out whether you would benefit from and thrive in their style of teaching; some people are not compatible with it, and no preparation changes that. — 00:12:04
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says that when applying he believed the media's view that Cambridge is the best and anything less second best; he now calls that unhealthy, as Oxbridge is a different style of teaching. — 00:12:30
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says Cambridge has 31 colleges and Oxford about 30, each with its own slightly different interview process. — 00:20:24
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says neither he nor any of the 10 to 15 friends he asked got current-affairs questions in their Oxbridge interviews, so he would not worry much about current affairs. — 00:20:24