1.牛津大学为何进行面试？
1.1 面试目的
牛津大学的面试旨在评估你的学术能力和潜力。牛津的导师制（tutorial system）采用小班教学模式，要求学生具备独立思考能力，并能在学校课程大纲之外接触新思想。面试帮助导师判断你是否能在这种环境中取得成功。
"Interviews tell us important things about a candidate which are not captured by grades or test scores. We can see candidates think, not merely parrot information."
（面试能让我们了解成绩和考试分数无法体现的重要特质。我们能看到候选人的思考过程，而不仅仅是复述信息。）
1.2 导师关注的特质
"If you have been called to interview that already means your application has impressed someone and that the interviewers think you have potential – they wouldn't be interviewing you if you didn't have a chance."
（如果你收到面试邀请，说明你的申请已经给某人留下了深刻印象，面试官认为你有潜力——如果没有机会，他们是不会邀请你面试的。）——意大利语导师
2.如何准备面试？
2.1 核心准备策略
2.2 具体准备活动
2.3 关于面试辅导的观点
大多数面试问题很难提前排练，导师通常能区分真实能力和辅导过的回答。真实的思考和热情比排练好的答案更有价值。
"Most of the sort of thinking questions we are asking are very hard to rehearse for. It is therefore usually quite easy to distinguish a candidate's real ability to think on their feet and their enthusiasm for the subject from the veneer that comes from coaching."
（我们提出的大多数思考类问题都很难提前排练。因此，通常很容易区分候选人的真实应变能力和对学科的热情，以及辅导带来的表面印象。）——医学导师
3.面试过程中会发生什么？
3.1 面试形式
3.2 问题类型
面试问题是对话的起点，旨在评估你的思考方式，而非测试已有知识。例如：
历史学
- "Is violence always political?"（暴力总是政治性的吗？）
- "Does 'political' mean something different in different contexts?"（"政治"在不同语境中是否有不同含义？）
生物科学
- "Is it easier for organisms to live in the sea or on land?"（生物在海洋中还是陆地上更容易生存？）
- "Why do we have red blood cells?"（为什么我们有红细胞？）
物理学
- "A ball, initially at rest, is pushed upwards by a constant force for a certain amount of time. Sketch the velocity of the ball as a function of time, from start to when it hits the ground."
- （一个球最初静止，被一个恒定的力向上推一段时间。画出球从开始到落地的速度随时间变化的函数图像。）
现代语言
- "In a world where English is a global language, why learn French?"（在英语成为全球语言的世界里，为什么要学法语？）
3.3 面试关键动态
"Exploring a blind alley or two is part of the normal thought process, and everyone makes occasional mistakes, but only very good candidates spot their own mistakes and recover from them."
（探索一两条死胡同是正常思维过程的一部分，每个人都会偶尔犯错，但只有非常优秀的候选人才能发现自己的错误并从中恢复。）——医学导师
4.优秀候选人的突出特点
4.1 智力素质
"An enthusiasm and drive for the subject. Not only wanting to know more, but to tear it apart, and see how it works."
（对学科的热情和动力。不仅想知道更多，还想剖析它，了解它的工作原理。）——化学导师
4.2 行为特质
"They rarely try to solve the whole problem in one go – instead, they divide it up into smaller, doable pieces, and then follow the logic of their answers to the full answer."
（他们很少尝试一次性解决整个问题——相反，他们将问题分解成更小的、可处理的部分，然后按照答案的逻辑得出完整答案。）——经济学导师
5.实用信息
5.1 面试时间安排
5.2 需携带物品
5.3 着装建议
5.4 到达与住宿
6.国际申请者
6.1 面试安排
6.2 旅行注意事项
6.3 经济支持
7.面试后流程
7.1 通知时间线
7.2 录取类型
7.3 请求反馈
8.面试样题
8.1 人文社科类
历史学
"Is violence always political? Does 'political' mean something different in different contexts?"
（暴力总是政治性的吗？"政治"在不同语境中是否有不同含义？）
神学与宗教
"Is someone who risks their own life (and those of others) in extreme sports or endurance activities, a hero or a fool?"
（在极限运动或耐力活动中冒着自己和他人生命危险的人，是英雄还是傻瓜？）
经济学
"Why is income per head between 50 and 100 times larger in the United States than in countries such as Burundi and Malawi?"
（为什么美国的人均收入是布隆迪和马拉维等国家的50到100倍？）
8.2 科学与数学类
生物学
"Is it easier for organisms to live in the sea or on land?"
（生物在海洋中还是陆地上更容易生存？）
物理学
"How hot does the air have to be in a hot air balloon if I wanted to use it to lift an elephant?"
（如果我想用热气球举起一头大象，空气需要有多热？）
心理学
"A large study appears to show that older siblings consistently score higher than younger siblings on IQ tests. Why would this be?"
（一项大型研究似乎表明，哥哥姐姐在智商测试中的得分始终高于弟弟妹妹。为什么会这样？）
8.3 创意艺术类
音乐
"If you could invent a new musical instrument, what kind of sound would it make?"
（如果你能发明一种新乐器，它会发出什么样的声音？）
英国文学
讨论你未曾见过的诗歌或短篇文学选段
现代语言
"In a world where English is a global language, why learn French?"
（在英语成为全球语言的世界里，为什么要学法语？）
9.导师与学生的最终建议
9.1 导师观点
"Read around the subject and spend time trying to understand why things happen, rather than just learning that they do."
（广泛阅读学科相关内容，花时间理解事情发生的原因，而不仅仅是记住它们的发生。）——化学导师
"The way to get better at solving hard maths problems is to practise, so take every opportunity to think about challenging questions."
（提高解决数学难题能力的方法是练习，所以抓住每一个思考挑战性问题的机会。）——数学导师
"Candidates are mainly judged on how well they are able to think about a problem, and less so on how much they know."
（候选人的评判主要基于他们思考问题的能力，而不是他们知道多少。）——生物学导师
9.2 学生经验
"I had four interviews; two at the college I applied to and two at a different college... It was fine to go slowly and think over things."
（我有四次面试；两次在我申请的学院，两次在不同的学院……慢慢思考是没问题的。）——Jenny，计算机科学与哲学
"I took some deep breaths, read them again slowly, and thought about them bit by bit, and managed to understand them and think of things I was happy to say."
（我深吸几口气，慢慢重读，一点一点思考，最终理解了它们，并想到了我乐意表达的观点。）——Emily，古典学与英语
"Try and enjoy this experience as much as you can... spend the rest of your time exploring Oxford!"
（尽可能享受这段经历……剩下的时间去探索牛津吧！）——Amina，化学