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18 24s Oxbridge Example Timetable 2023 3aee59ebbd
18 24s Oxbridge Example Timetable 2023 3aee59ebbd
18 24s Oxbridge Example Timetable 2023 3aee59ebbd
Fri
Subject seminar Subject seminar Cultural Activities / Free time College dinner Cocktails
Sat
Day Trip
Sun
Breakfast Cultural Activities / Free time Social Activities / Free time
Mon
Seminar Preparation Subject seminar Subject seminar
Dinner
Tue
Seminar Preparation Subject seminar Subject seminar Tutorial Preparation
Wed 15:00
Tutorial Preparation Lunch Cultural Activities / Free time
deadline
Social Activities / Free time
Thu
Tutorial Preparation Paired tutorials, 1 hr per pair
Fri
Cultural Activities / Free time Subject seminar Subject seminar Formal Dinner and Graduation
Sat
Departures
Tutor contact Compulsory study Other academic time Social & cultural time Meals
See next page for details. Actual activities and trips will vary.
ACADEMIC SUMMER COURSES EXAMPLE TIMETABLE: AGE 18-24
This timetable is designed to give you a taste of what it's like to study at Oxford or Cambridge. The intense class time in small groups and independent study in small groups with an expert tutor
will help you to learn a huge amount in just two weeks. Outside of academic time, you'll also live like a student with a social and cultural programme that you can make your own.
Your tutor will want to hear what you think about the topics being discussed, and how you’ This is a skills-based professional development workshop with students from all different
re finding the class. To get the most out of these sessions you should come ready to subjects. It may focus on areas such as effective learning techniques, skill sets, using your
express your ideas and take part in discussion. There are no bad answers and no stupid strengths, performing at an elite level, or careers in the new economy. It will be an
questions. interactive session lead by an external expert.
Your tutorial is an hour-long class with your tutor, either on your own or in a pair and a
key feature of the teaching model used at the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge. Meals
A tutorial typically consists of three core features: the tutor gives a thorough assessment Breakfast: Lunch: Dinner:
and in depth feedback on work that the student has prepared in advance; the tutor Offered at a set You'll have the flexibility There will be a 'formal hall' each Friday night
challenges the student to consider alternative ideas or counter-arguments, stretching the time at the to buy your own lunch, like Oxford and Cambridge students
student further than the work they have prepared already has; and finally the student is college where you with staff on hand to experience. You will have the opportunity to
able to ask questions of the tutor, and pursue the topics that are most interest to them. will be staying. recommend where is eat at local restaurants and enjoy themed
The direction of the tutorial can be influenced by both the tutor and the students, so that good locally. nights.
every tutorial is unique and personalised.