Do You Think You re Clever

Release on 2009-10-01 | by John Farndon

Answer, modestly, 'no' and of course the interviewer might take you at your word and deny you a place at Oxbridge where, naturally, only clever people are admitted (so rumour has it). Answer 'yes' and you risk suggesting that you are ...

Author: John Farndon
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781848311565
Category: Education
Page: 221
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What happens if I drop an ant? What books are bad for you? What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow? The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are. John Farndon has collected together 75 of the most intriguing questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to each, taking the reader through the fascinating histories, philosophies, sciences and arts that underlie each problem. This is a book for everyone who likes to think they're clever, or who thinks they'd like to be clever. And cleverness is not just knowing stuff, it's how laterally, deeply and interestingly you can bend your brain. Guesstimating the population of Croydon, for example, opens a chain of thought from which you can predict the strength of a nuclear bomb ...and that's just the start of it.

Language: en
Pages: 221

Do You Think You're Clever?

Authors: John Farndon

Categories: Education

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-01 - Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Language: en
Pages: 288

Do You Still Think You're Clever?

Authors: John Farndon

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-06 - Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxbridge interview questions. How would you poison someone without the police finding out? (Medicine, Cambridge) What makes a