Reader’s Comment of the Day: I had to borrow a biro for my Oxbridge exam

Interesting article. I walked out of my Oxbridge interview completely bamboozled by the questions. I had clearly failed to get in, but I accepted it. It was a fair test, and I had come up short.

Later that evening I spoke to a fellow candidate at the bar: “Ah, but they always ask that question!” he told me. Suddenly the playing field didn’t seem so level.

I was a comprehensive boy; he went to a private school and – it turned out – had received 12 weeks of prep for the interview. Me? No one had even told me that I would have to sit an exam. I had to borrow a biro…