The director of ­admissions for Cambridge said that interviewers could tell if sixth formers had rehearsed and change their questions AlamyCoaching for university interviews is a waste of time and money, the head of admissions at Cambridge has said. Parents pay private companies to tutor children for the famously left-field Oxford and Cambridge interviews, and leading schools also help their pupils to prepare. Sam Lucy, director of admissions for Cambridge, said that interviewers could tell if sixth formers had rehearsed, and change their questions. “There’s quite a lot of overthinking of the process, of trying to interpret what we’re looking for,” she said before an appearance at the annual gathering of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon. “They come…

Source: The Times October 05, 2016 23:48 UTC