Our Support

Deciding on the right course and university is an important step in the application process. Admissions tutors are looking for applicants who can show real motivation to study their subject and can articulate their interest in the course. In the initial Private Consultation, our consultant will make an assessment of your ability and provide objective and constructive feedback on the best course and university choice. The Premier Service consultant can then offer further guidance and information on courses.

Drawing on our research and internal knowledge as to what admissions tutors look for in their ideal candidates, individual colleges’ own admissions statistics and your preferences and interests (as determined by our college questionnaire), the Premier Service consultant will guide you through your college choice. After compiling the research, you will receive a shortlist of four colleges, which we deem to be the best match. The Premier Service consultant will then help to guide you to your final choice.

The personal statement is an essential part of a successful application (of the applicants we worked with last year, 64% were asked about this at interview). To ensure you submit an outstanding personal statement, we provide examples of past personal statements and guidelines to help you write your first draft, followed by support from your mentor and the Premier Service consultant for redrafting. The final draft is then checked by a former Oxbridge admissions tutor.

To help you demonstrate your academic potential beyond your school syllabus, we assign each applicant a personal mentor who studied your chosen subject at your university. The mentor provides 14 hours of subject focused private tuition, designed to promote independent thinking, whilst moving you towards the concepts you will be studying in your first year as an undergraduate.

Following the Interview & Admissions Test Preparation Weekend, your mentor and the Premier Service Consultant will use your feedback to establish how you can best use your time before the interview. You will have the option of a further 6 hours of tuition with your mentor or with another specialist Oxbridge-graduate tutors to focus on specific areas.

You are invited to attend our exclusive Premier Service Day, held in London at the Law Society on Saturday 15th September. The day includes a small, subject-focused seminar to familiarise you with the Oxbridge teaching system, initial admissions test support where applicable as well as preliminary mock interviews and an academic lecture from a guest speaker. Full feedback is provided to ensure you understand the areas you most need to focus on during the next three months.

The intensive weekend consists of subject-focused academic tutorials conducted by our Oxbridge educated tutors, admissions test support, advice from former admissions tutors, and six rigorous mock interviews (including one with a former admissions tutor), all designed to develop the key abilities admissions tutors seek in successful applicants: flexibility, creativity and independent lateral thinking.

This year’s Interview & Admissions Test Preparation Weekend will take place from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th October.

This session is an unrivalled opportunity to work on your confidence and communication skills; an essential asset for an application to Oxbridge as well as to other universities and, of course, for future job interviews.

Admissions tests are an increasingly important element of the applications process. Should you be required to sit an admissions test, you will receive an initial two-hour preparation tutorial with one of our admissions test consultants. You will also receive sample practice papers and answer guides as well as a place at one of our one-day Admissions Test Seminars, held in London in September and October. Following this, you will have the opportunity to go through their own practice paper with one of our admissions test specialists and have a further two-hour tutorial on test content and strategy.

For further preparation, you can have unlimited subject-specific mock interviews at our Interview Preparation Days, located around the country.

In addition to the further reading set by your mentor, you will receive a comprehensive reading list for your subject from our Premier Service consultant and bimonthly topical articles, selected to broaden your knowledge and lateral thinking skills.