牛津劍橋大學各專業面試題目分享

牛劍申請遞交已于10月15日截止！大學在審核完申請者的初步申請后，將會對感興趣的申請者發出面試邀請。受疫情影響，今年牛劍依舊采用線上面試的形式。

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牛津大學面試時間

牛津大學所有面試基本在12月上旬至中旬進行，最早的面試時間為：12月6日(周一)，最晚的面試時間為12月17日(周五)。

劍橋大學面試時間

2021年11月：進行BMAT、ELAT和其他面試評估。

2021年12月：大部分面試都在12月的前三周進行（時間有些可能會更早一些）。

2022年1月：進行Winter pool，并將錄取決定發布給申請人，可能會要求少數申請人參加進一步面試。

距離大部分專業的面試時間只有不到兩個月，留給面試候選人的時間很緊張了，而且牛劍的面試問題很難預測，十分抽象，對不少同學來說都是個很大的挑戰！

為此，我們找來了一些往年牛劍面試問題，大家不妨來看看你能否hold住這些題目？

自然科學專業面試真題：

● Why do some habitats support higher biodiversity than others?（牛津生物專業面試真題）
● Why do many animals have stripes?（牛津生物專業面試真題）
● Here's a cactus. Tell me about it.（牛津生物專業面試真題）
● If you could save either the rainforests or the coral reefs, which would you choose?（牛津生物專業面試真題）
● Is it easier for organisms to live in the sea or on land?（牛津生物專業面試真題）
● Why do lions have manes?（牛津生物專業面試真題）
● Ladybirds are red. So are strawberries. Why?（牛津生物專業面試真題）
● Would it matter if tigers became extinct?（牛津生物專業面試真題）
● How many different molecules can be made from six carbon atoms and twelve hydrogen atoms?（牛津化學專業面試真題）
● 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.（牛津物理專業面試真題）
● Describe a potato and then compare it to an onion.（這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
● Do you think Neanderthals understood the concept of death.（這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
● If you were a rat what would be the most important thing to you? （這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
●??Is it an advantage for a virus to kill its host?（這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
● Is there blood in your brain（這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
● How does an electric guitar work?（這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
● If I wanted to create a new strain of potatoes that were purple, how would I go about doing this?（這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
● If you had to look back on 2005 in ten years' time, what would you tell people about it? （這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
●?Which way is the earth spinning?（這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）

數學專業面試真題

● Imagine a ladder leaning against a vertical wall with its feet on the ground. The middle rung of the ladder has been painted a different colour on the side, so that we can see it when we look at the ladder from the side on. What shape does that middle rung trace out as the ladder falls to the floor?（牛津數學專業面試真題）
● How many ways are there to cover a 2 x n rectangular grid with 2 x 1 tiles?（牛津數學專業面試真題）
●There's a torus/ring doughnut shaped space station with 2 spacemen on a spacewalk standing diametrically oppositie each other. Can then ask a variety of questions such as if spaceman A wants to throw a spanner to spaceman B, what angle and speed should they choose (stating any assumptions made, e.g. that gravity = 0)?（這道題目由牛津面試者提供）
● if your friends were here now instead of you, what would they say about you?（這是一道劍橋大學數學專業面試題，考察內容與數學無關，但考察面試者的綜合能力）
● Integrate xlog(x).（牛津大學數學專業面試題）
● Differentiate x^x, then sketch it.（牛津大學數學專業面試題）
● If a cannon is pointed straight at a monkey in a tree, and the monkey lets go and falls towards the ground at the same instant the cannon is fired, will the monkey be hit? Describe any assumptions you make. （這是牛劍面試者分享的一道真題）
● If you could have half an hour with any mathematician past or present, who would it be?（牛劍面試者分享的一道真題，考察數學知識相關）
● Do you know where the multiplication sign came from？（牛津大學mathematics and statistics專業面試題）

經濟專業面試真題：

● Do bankers deserve the pay they receive? And should government do something to limit how much they get?（牛津經濟管理專業面試真題）
● 'I agree that air transport contributes to harmful climate change. But whether or not I make a given plane journey, the plane will fly anyway. So there is no moral reason for me not to travel by plane.' Is this a convincing argument?（牛津PPE專業面試真題）
● Suppose that you could plug yourself into a machine for the rest of your life, which would give you all the experiences you find enjoyable and valuable. Once in the machine, you would not know that you are plugged in, and that these experiences are not real. Would you go into the machine? If so, why? If not, why not?（牛津PPE專業面試真題）
● Are our deaths bad for us?（牛津PPE專業面試真題）
● Why is income per head between 50 and 100 times larger in the United States than in countries such as Burundi and Malawi?（牛津PPE專業面試真題）
● When I was at school in the 1970s, there was talk of a pensions crisis that would one day hit. The talk persisted in the 1980s, and the 1990s – and then there was a pensions crisis, and little had been done politically to prepare us for it. Is there a fault with the British political system that means we can't sensibly address serious medium and long-term problems when they are identified?（牛津PPE專業面試真題）
● I'm having trouble with the meaning of three words: Lie, Deceive, Mislead. They seem to mean something a bit similar, but not exactly the same.? Help me to sort them out from each other.（牛津PPE專業面試真題）
● If the government passed a law requiring people to wear seatbelts, why might this result in more road accident casualties?（這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）
● why do Ryan air try and sell tickets for Dublin day passes on flights into London stansted? （這道題目由劍橋面試者提供）