劍橋大學的麵試會考察哪些問題？

準備牛劍的麵試不是一件容易的事，不僅(jin) 考驗你的知識、能力、潛力、邏輯和思考能力，而且麵試官們(men) 給出的問題也是五花八門，讓你意想不到。

那麽(me) 劍橋又會(hui) 有哪些麵試常見問題呢？下麵將為(wei) 你列舉(ju) 一些麵試問題常見的分類和例子，快來看看你能不能答得上來吧！

關(guan) 於(yu) 大學/學院的問題

1. Why did you choose Cambridge?
2. Why this college?
這類是最基礎也是最簡單的問題，一般這類問題的最佳答案是圍繞學科、課程、學院和該學院的導師進行回答。

關(guan) 於(yu) 課程和規劃問題

1. How do you think that you studying this subject can affect society or add to it?
2. How important do you think this subject is in terms of humanity?
3. What do you want to be after university, and why?
4. What do you expect to gain from going to university?
這類問題考察你的大局觀，也就是你對於(yu) 自己人生的規劃，他們(men) 不希望學生隻是為(wei) 了學習(xi) 一個(ge) 學位而來讀書(shu) 。

關(guan) 於(yu) 個(ge) 人陳述中的問題

1. What is your favourite thing about your subject?
2. What do you not like about this subject?
你需要非常了解自己的個(ge) 人陳述，另外，在思考這些問題的時候要注意技巧，比如第二個(ge) 問題你可以這麽(me) 回答“目前我覺得xx專(zhuan) 業(ye) 的xx很困難（稍微展開說明你對它的具體(ti) 理解），但我希望在學位課程中能夠更好地理解它。”

經過以上基本問題的“熱身環節”，接下來麵試官們(men) 就會(hui) 著重考察你的專(zhuan) 業(ye) 能力和知識：

Geography

1. Would anything remain in the study of geography if we took the notion of place away?
2. Give and explain some environmental impacts of industrial agriculture.
3. Are fair-trade bananas really fair?
4. How can computers aid geographers in understanding physical processes?
5. How can volcanic eruptions change global climate, and at what timescales?

History

1. Can we still learn lessons from 18th century warfare?
2. Can losers ever write history? How?
3. Compare and contrast the French and Russian revolutions.
4. Compare and contrast WWI and WWII.
5. Compare the French Revolution with a modern event.

Maths

1. If you could have half an hour with any mathematician past or present, who would it be?
2. Derive the formula for the volume of a sphere.
3. Do you know what a hyperbolic function is?
4. How would you prove that the square root of 3 is irrational?
5. How many 0s does the number 30 have?
6. How long does a mirror have to be for you to see your whole body?

Psychology

1. Can we think without language?
2. Does a snail have a consciousness?
3. How useful are twin studies?
4. Should interviews be used for selection?
5. What is “normal” for humans?
6. What is crime and is there such a thing as a criminal mind?
7. What is love?

Sciences

1. Are humans still evolving?
2. Are parasites bad?
3. Can you change an endothermic reaction into an exothermic one?
4. Compare and contrast electronegativity and ionisation energy.
5. Compare and contrast hydrochloric acid and phosphoric acid.
6. Does the snow falling on top of a train have an effect on its velocity?
7. How can you store large amounts of hydrogen?
8. How much of human behaviour is genetically determined?
9. How does glass transmit light?
10. How does an aeroplane take off?
11. How many grains of sand are there in the world? has the human diet changed in the last three decades and why?

一些bizarre的問題

1. How comfortable is that chair?
2. What is your opinion on spontaneous human combustion?
3. Describe a potato and then compare it with an onion
4. Is Hitler really evil?
5. How can reindeer tell the difference between spring and autumn?
6. Would you rather be a seedless or non-seedless grapefruit?
7. Do you like Birmingham?
8. What is the meaning of life?
9. How would you poison someone without the police finding out?
10. If a wife had expressed distaste for it previously, would her husband’s habit of putting marmalade in his egg at breakfast be grounds for divorce?
11. What percentage of the world’s water is contained in a cow?
12. If you were a rat what would be the most important thing to you?