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 Our three-day intensive Oxford and Cambridge Interview Preparation Weekend is a specialist flagship event to equip students for their Oxbridge interviews.

From its launch over 10 years ago, we have developed a timetable that ensures applicants receive the most beneficial preparation at this key moment in the application cycle. Many applicants who join the event describe the experience as the key to their success.

Hosted in an immersive Oxbridge environment in the British countryside, students experience the academic spirit and intellectual interactions that characterise life at an Oxbridge college. Students meet other like-minded applicants, as well as former Oxbridge admissions tutors and over a hundred Oxbridge-graduate mentors.

 

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Benefits of our Interview Preparation Weekend

Five Mock Interviews

Receive five formal mock interviews with trained Oxbridge graduate tutors, including a panel interview

What Admissions tutors look for

Meet with a former Oxbridge admissions tutor for individual advice on the application

Interview Skills Session

Learn interview frameworks and communication methods that can be applied in the real Oxbridge interview

Oxbridge-style tutorials

Learn with other students applying for your course during interactive Oxbridge tutorials

Focus on Study Skills

Learn from Oxbridge-graduate tutors about student life and key study skills to take forward

Guide to the Application Process

Make significant academic progress on this all-inclusive and intensive course, free from outside distractions

Interview Preparation Weekend Key Details

  • Location: Old Windsor
  • Duration: Three Days
  • When: October Half Term (1st-3rd November 2024)
  • Price: £2500
  • Includes: Accommodation and Food

Book directly with our consultancy team on +44 (0) 207 499 2394 or email [email protected]

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Meet our Tutors

We have specialist Oxbridge application mentors who are all previous successful applicants in a range of subjects.

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ALICIA LUBA

CONSULTANCY DIRECTOR

BA OXON, MA KINGS COLLEGE, LONDON

Alicia has been guiding applicants, parents and schools for over 12 years, specialising in English, Law, History, Modern Languages and Politics. She is particularly specialised in guiding our young applicants (coming in for Consultations aged 14 or 15) to prepare their long-term strategies. She holds a double first-class degree in English Literature from St Hilda’s College Oxford and also an MA in Shakespeare from Kings College, London. She regularly takes on her own Premier Service students each year as well as conducting the initial Private Consultations (of which she has now completed over 1000) in the London offices at Dukes House or around the globe. Alicia also travels to meet clients and schools in the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Hong Kong, Nigeria and Oman.

Alison Bissell Oxbridge Preparation Week

ALISON BISSELL

DIRECTOR, DUKES PLUS CONSULTANCY

BA OXON

Alison has been working with students at Oxbridge Applications for more than a decade and has individually overseen hundreds of successful applications, as well as advising and presenting to thousands more candidates. Holding a degree in Maths and Philosophy from Pembroke College, Oxford, Alison specialises in guiding STEM applicants along their increasingly competitive pathway–applicant numbers for many of these Oxbridge courses have increased by 50% in the last decade.

Passionate about widening access to higher education and nurturing every student’s sense of their academic personality, Alison is proud to be guiding her 13th cohort of university applicants. Alison has led the teams at Oxbridge Applications and A-List Education and is now Director of Dukes Plus Consultancy. Alison’s personal academic interests span formal logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and abstract algebra. She also holds an MBA and serves as an Independent Governor at her former college.

THEO BOYCE

DIRECTOR-LEVEL CONSULTANT

MA CANTAB

Theo studied Human, Social, and Political Sciences at Cambridge for his BA and MA, achieving the top result in his year with a ‘starred First’. He has gone on to achieve two master’s degrees, including in Psychology from Birkbeck College, where he also achieved the highest overall grade in his cohort. He has held teaching and research positions at McGill University and Birkbeck College, and has also worked on the creation of the most recent Oxford Handbook of Higher Education.

At Dukes, Theo has advised and mentored over 1000 applicants across a decade, presents regularly to schools and conferences, and has also written and edited many publications and mock test materials used by thousands of applicants each year. For his work, Theo has won the Dukes Education prize for going ‘Above and Beyond’ twice. Also serving as a school governor in his spare time, Theo is passionate about education and finds supporting students in the transition between school and university particularly rewarding. Aside from his interests in psychology and the social sciences, Theo also trained in professional acting at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and enjoys helping drama school aspirants with their preparation, as well as using his acting experience to offer communication skills advice for interview performance.

THOMAS MOON

CONSULTANCY MANAGER

BA CANTAB

Tom leads the Consultancy Team at Oxbridge Applications, and has worked privately with hundreds of families, advising on applications across the full spectrum of undergraduate courses offered by Oxford and Cambridge, as well as other G5 universities. After graduating from Downing College, Cambridge, Tom worked as an academic copy editor before joining the OA team. He's since delivered talks at dozens of schools to thousands of applicants and met and advised students from more than 30 countries.

Tom studied English at Cambridge and mentors applicants applying to English and English joint schools at both Oxford and Cambridge, as well as interviewing across a spectrum of humanities and social sciences courses. He has particular academic interests in John Milton, literary architecture, historicity, the epistolary novel, and late Victorian and early modernist poetry.

ELLA PEAKE

HEAD OF PROGRAMMES AND LEARNING

BA OXON

Ella graduated with a First in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Styring scholarship in both her first and second years. Following her undergraduate studies, she trained as a teacher with Teach First,  achieving a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) with Distinction and Qualified Teacher Status. Continuing her love for learning and psychology, she is currently studying in the evenings for a masters in Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck University.

Ella is the Head of Programmes and Learning at Oxbridge Applications, and she serves as a Study Director for a brilliant group of Premier Service students. She also tutors psychology, and has delivered numerous Private Consultations for prospective applicants across a range of courses. Ella applies her extensive knowledge of psychology and educational science to her work, enhancing student outcomes through evidence-based methods.

RO SUPPA

CONSULTANT

BA CANTAB

Ro has been working with Oxbridge applications for almost 8 years, as both a tutor of biological, chemical and medical sciences, and now most recently as an in-house consultant specialising in STEM applications. Ro graduated from Natural Sciences (B) at Cambridge with a BA, specialising in Neurobiology and Physiology, and further completed an integrated MSc in the History of Medicine before leaving Cambridge in 2017. They have also completed a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law, London, where they achieved a Distinction and were awarded a full, Queen Mother's Scholarship from Middle Temple for the duration of their studies.

Ro joined Dukes in 2021 as a senior science technician for a Dukes school, as well as having worked for a private GCSE and A-Level science tutor for almost a decade. Ro is genuinely delighted to meet applicants to biological sciences courses, and discuss the latest in research, popular science books, or things they have seen in the news. Their personal interests are rooting in Neuroscience and Physiology, but they have a real soft spot for birds, and could talk about Corvids all day.

Oxbridge Applicant Support Services

Our Oxbridge support services help you to maximise your chances of a successful application, with a specialist consultative team who have years of first-hand experience.

Alongside this preparation course, we can help you with specific areas such as writing a personal statement, admissions test support, and mock interview courses.

Our Oxbridge-graduate consultants are available between 9.00 am – 5.00 pm from Monday to Friday, with additional evening availability when requested.

Contact our Oxbridge consultancy team on +44 (0)207499 2394 or email at [email protected] to reserve your place.

Our offices are at 58 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ

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Our Oxbridge-graduate consultants are available between 9.00 am – 5.00 pm from Monday to Friday, with additional evening availability when requested.

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