A very rough guide to quantities is that for the first three years you may have in each week of full term up to about ten lectures, two college tutorials, and two coursework sessions of two or more hours each. Admissions procedure Every candidate called for interview will be interviewed by two colleges, one of which will be the candidate's college of preference. Each candidate's interviews will take place on the same day, not the same day for all candidates, at times which will be notified along with the invitation to attend for interview. Overnight accommodation will be available for candidates who request it. A few colleges may ask candidates whom they have not yet seen to return another day for further interview.
Engineering operates an open offer' scheme which increases the number of offers made.
A small number of candidates will be made an offer of a place without allocation to a particular college. The college will be determined after the publication of A-level results the following August, when all colleges have had the opportunity to review their entries. In every other respect, open offers are as firm as normal offers. Ability in maths and physics is essential for those wishing to study any engineering course. Almost all undergraduates have also taken at least one other major subject, for example, a second mathematics paper, or a scientific subject, or a non-science subject.