Cambridge Success Getting you into the University of Cambridge
Tuition Services
· Course and College choice
As you may have read about here, there are a multitude of courses and colleges to choose from at Cambridge.
Cambridge Success provides one-to-one consultancy sessions to allow the student to explore the array of undergraduate degree course options open to them. Our tutors recommend the courses best suited to our students A-Level, Baccalaureate, or Pre-U choices and their academic interests, and pass on feedback from recent graduates of their experiences of various degree courses. Our unique questionnaire will determine the colleges most suited to our students, and we provide guided tours of the universities, colleges, and subject faculties. With such a wealth of information and support our students will be confident that they are making the right choices in their application. And making the right choices in an application is the critical first step to achieving a place at Oxbridge: academic capability and innate aptitude will be noticed by the university, whilst the suitability of the degree and the college selected will develop the pupil’s love for the subject and enthusiasm for the future university experience that every successful application requires.
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· Private tuition
The academic calibre of applicants to Cambridge requires some beating, as you might have seen here.
All our tutors at Cambridge Success have personal experience of the benefits of the Cambridge tutorial system: twice weekly one-on-one sessions with some of the most notable academics in the world. Our science graduates know what it is to work in cutting-edge fields of research in well-funded labs; our humanitarian students know the worth of the numerous libraries; our linguists, the advantage of learning through exposure to the language first-hand whilst abroad. In short, our tutors widen the academic horizons of our students further in an hour than many tutors would be able to in a year. Carefully selected content will prepare our students for the work that would be expected of them at Cambridge, and the nature of the tuition will familiarise them with the tutorial format. As interviews often replicate a first-year undergraduate tutorial, these sessions help a student’s interview performance both by broadening their academic grounding and by generating greater comfort with the interview format.
A-Level, Baccalaureate, and Pre-U tuition and revision sessions are also available. This is ideal for upper sixth students looking to meet their conditional offers at a university, for lower sixth students hoping to score as highly as possible in their AS-Levels, or for those sitting retakes to improve their grades.
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· Personal statement
The importance of the personal statement to the entire application can be read about here.
It is crucial that the core of the personal statement is written by the student: conveying personal achievements and personal interests cannot be adequately done by a third party, however well informed. For this reason, Cambridge Success does not write personal statements for our students from scratch. Instead, through initial advice and providing textbook examples we develop the skills necessary for a student to write a successful personal statement for their subject; by providing a comprehensive evaluation of the statement before submission, Cambridge Success ensures every personal statement reaches its full potential. The final product is a personal statement that highlights the best aspects of the applicant’s academic calibre and potential, yet maintains their individuality.
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· Written work and entrance exams
As you may read about here, submitting written work and taking entrance exams are now key parts of many applications.
Preparation and assistance for both written work and exams could radically improve performance. A good choice of essays to submit will complement the rest of the application, whilst a high score in the entrance exams is a prerequisite for acceptance to many courses. Cambridge Success will review a shortlist of written work for their students and select those they believe to best supplement the rest of the application; by giving in-depth feedback on the work Cambridge Success allows students to enrich their essays before they are re-marked by the school prior to submission to the university. Cambridge Success also offer practice sessions and mock tests to help students prepare for entrance exams. By increasing their confidence and helping to perfect their technique, Cambridge Success ensures students better express their full potential in these unique exams.
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To understand the interview process you must first deconstruct the mystique that surrounds it, as you may have found out here.· Interview practice
Cambridge Success tutors remember, only too clearly, the frantic preparation, the weeks of building tension and, most acutely, the nerves of the interview. Our tutors all also remember something quite different too: the exhilaration of exploring their subject further, of having discourse with world-renowned minds, and of the tantalising questions left open at the end giving a new appetite for learning. It is this insight into the interview that separates Cambridge Success from other university preparation services: not training our students what to say, but teaching them how to experience the interview, how to think, reflect, and respond. By encouraging our students to learn from the interview and to demonstrate that learning in the brief time they have with their interviewers, we give them the ultimate advantage: we display the brightness of their academic future. After such an interview, the whole application takes on a new aspect: no longer a record of past glory but the springboard for new and greater achievement. After such an interview, the applicants themselves take on a new aspect: no longer a routinely intelligent individual but an intelligent individual willing and able to absorb the maximum amount of information Cambridge has to offer. After such an interview, the University of Cambridge would look forward to further teaching the interviewee, and be proud to make them an offer.
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· Distress Support
Being up for interview at Cambridge can be a stressful experience, as you may have read about here.
Cambridge Success offers a unique service to all student enjoying one of our comprehensive packages: "Distress Support". Distress Support gives 24-hour-a-day assistance to students whilst they are up at interview: whether it's early morning nerves or late night worry our students can contact a Cambridge Success tutor with whom they have had coaching and receive advice and support. As last-minute preparation our tutors calm down or fire up our students as required, and as a willing listener at any hour of the day or night our tutors share the excitement whilst easing the nerves that a Cambridge interview brings. As a result, our students are never academically isolated during their interviews and the pressure of the occasion is thus far less likely to overwhelm them. Even when a student doesn't contact a tutor, the fact that with Distress Support they could if they needed is enough to give them the final shot of confidence they need to realise their full potential.
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For more information on any of the above please visit the Cambridge University Admissions website, or email us at info@cambridgesuccess.com.