Caius Schools

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Caius Schools

8 episodes

9 months ago

Caius Schools is the outreach team of Gonville & Caius College, one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. Our episodes cover topics relating to Cambridge admissions like interviews and personal statements, explorations of individual subjects, and interviews with students and academics.

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Episodes (8/8)

Caius Schools

Listen to a Cambridge mock interview!

Wondering what a Cambridge admissions interview might sound like? Join Dr Rebecca Sugden, Dr Geoff Maguire and 2nd-year student Ruby as they give you a sense of a modern languages interview here in Cambridge.

The second half of the interview focusses on a passage, which you can hear Chris read at the start of the podcast. You can also access a written version here: https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-10/Mock%20Interview%20Passage.pdf

If you prefer to see the interview as well as hear it, you can go and watch on our YouTube channel, here: https://youtu.be/64DKoxfhPzU

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1 year ago

47 minutes 18 seconds

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What are Cambridge porters, and what do they do?

Porters are often the first people you might meet when visiting any Cambridge college - have you ever wondered what they do, and what their role involves? Chris and Francesca chat with Senior Shift Porter John Turton and Night Porter Jem Reid, finding out all about the different aspects of the Porter role, and hearng some good stories along the way!

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1 year ago

37 minutes 9 seconds

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Q&A: Standing out, abbreviations in personal statements, diversity, and more!

Join Chris, Bethan and Francesca as they answer more of your questions, direct from TikTok live. This week we also cover the cost of university, whether colleges specialise in certain subjects, and plenty more on personal statements. Enjoy!

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1 year ago

52 minutes 51 seconds

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Q&A: Further Maths, state school targets, results day and more!

Join Chris, Bethan, and special guest Dr Rebecca Sugden (Deputy Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Caius) as they answer questions from this week's TikTok live session.

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1 year ago

35 minutes 8 seconds

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Subject Deep Dive: Modern and Medieval Languages

Chris and Bethan are joined by Dr Rebecca Sugden, Director of Studies in MML at Caius, and student Ruby to discuss all things languages in this, the first of our 'subject deep dive' episodes!

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1 year ago

53 minutes 22 seconds

Caius Schools

Q&A: EPQs, BTECs, personal statements, more!

We answer more of your questions

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1 year ago

35 minutes 56 seconds

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