Customer Reviews
Not quite the answer - By: Abe Simms, 12 Sep 2007 
This is a thin, glossy booklet with some helpful advice, not terribly different from the kind offered by schools. To pad out just over seventy editorial pages, printed in large letters, there are a dozen large photographs. This is followed by ten pages of old interview questions, reproduced without comment of any sort.
Unfortunately, Oxbridge questions change every year, as does the type of thing interviewers may reasonably ask. "What is a banana", for instance, is totallly unacceptable these days. It would be judged far too opaque. If you doubt this, just ask any admissions tutor. I would guess that, to most students, the list will be about as useful as the 2001 Premiership results.
No less irritating are the subtle attempts to drum up more lucrative business for the publishers, Oxbridge Applications. Readers are repeatedly nudged towards the company's website without being told that this sells expensive personal training for the Oxbridge interview. I personallly would not trust authors who operate in this way.
Good...but gets carried away - By: N. DAVIES, 07 Aug 2007 
Worthwhile reading for anyone wishing to apply to Oxbridge & get an insight into the culture, attitudes & methods of the application process. Could be condensed but probably sized to justify its publication & price (£9.99 retail for 112 well padded out A5 pages). Some of the content is fatuous, e.g. "A few judicious bottles of single malt given to the porters at the end of each term can earn you such invaluable information as prior warning of practice fire alarms..." which supports the notion of patronisation & an in-crowd that elsewhere the book attempts to dispel. In large part though, useful reading so you're prepared to do your best.
