Are you cleverer than an undergraduate? Professor releases some of the questions put to students wanting to study at Cambridge
A Cambridge professor has posted some of the university’s legendarily tough interview questions online to help would-be students.Richard Prager, head of engineering at the historic university, said he wanted to try and 'level the playing field' for hopeful undergraduates.
He has launched an online question bank to prepare candidates for the notoriously difficult entry interviews which have become the stuff of legend.
The questions, aimed predominantly at maths, physics and engineering students, give an insight into the difficult tasks applicants have faced in previous tests.
They are on a new website, I-Want-To-Study-Engineering.org, and include subjects as varied as goats, game show hosts, eyeballs, pirates and bungee jumps.
Prof Prager said: 'Some schools are more experienced than others at preparing their pupils for competitive engineering entrance interviews.
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剑桥大学入学试题
I-Want-To-Study-Engineering.org aims to level the playing field by providing a collection of technical interview questions that everyone can use for practice.
The exercises on the website are designed to inspire and challenge students. We hope that this will encourage them to consider studying engineering at university.'By developing their problem-solving skills we can also help them to turn that ambition into a reality.
Cambridge candidates are said to have been posed a number of mind-twisting questions over the years including: 'Is this question a question?' The wily student reportedly replied: 'Yes... if this is an answer.'Student legend also has it that one was asked 'what would you do if you were a magpie?' and another 'how would you poison someone without the police finding out?'Another was reportedly asked: 'Do you like Birmingham?'
据英国《每日邮报》报道，近日一名剑桥大学教授在网上公布了该校面试的部分问题，以此帮助有志进入剑桥学习的学生。剑桥大学工程学院负责人理查德?普拉格面向有意报考剑桥大学的学子推出一个在线题库，题库中的题目主要针对理工类学生，旨在帮助他们了解剑桥大学往届考生曾面对过的难题。登录“I-Want-To-Study-Engineering.org”网站就可以查看这些问题。问题五花八门，有关于山羊的、节目主持人的、眼球的，甚至还有关于海盗和蹦极的。普拉格教授希望通过此举为更多学生提供公平竞争的机会。他说：“网站选择的这些题目都是为了激发和鼓舞学生。我们希望借此形式激发学生学习工程专业的兴趣。通过开发学生解决问题的能力，我们也能帮助他们实现梦想。”
据称，报考剑桥大学的学生每年都会遇到各种让人想破头的问题。例如，“这个问题是个问题吗？”对于这样的问题，必须得有足够机智的答案才能过关，比方说：“是的，如果这算是个答案的话。”还有学生遇到这样的问题：“如果你是只喜鹊，你怎么办？”“怎样做才能毒死某人而不被警方发现？”还有问题是：“你喜欢伯明翰市吗？”
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发表于 2016-7-10 18:34:24