2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship [pdf](asc.ox.ac.uk)
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2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship [pdf]
https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-10/General%20Paper%202024.pdf
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Fun to see the questions, but I would love even more to read the essays they got along with the mark scheme/examiner's comments.
What is they are looking for? And what in their eyes makes a good answer? That would be interesting for me to see and helpful in terms of developing my own thinking.
What is they are looking for? And what in their eyes makes a good answer? That would be interesting for me to see and helpful in terms of developing my own thinking.
I tried explaining on this forum recently that education is not training for a job. The questions and, I hope, the answers are evidence of that.
For me it's less about training for a job, and more just curiosity - what makes one answer to these questions better than another? I wonder what criteria they use and knowing that criteria would be helpful to me when looking to develop my own thinking.
Yes why are these not published in a nice book? I would love to read these too!
I'm interested in understanding whether they're looking for two essays or six. Is each essay supposed to weave together three quotes?
Each essay should be written independently of the others, as I understand it. I wouldn't try and weave them together.
6, 3 from each paper
So, in order to get that scholarship, you need to write 3 or 6 essays on quips of their choice? Hmm. I don't even the people who need to read the endless stream of generic verbiage.
Odd that. My auto correct doesn't suggest even for envy.
Some great conversation-starters here! Saving this for a future dinner party...
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>15. Defend minimalism.
“No.”
“No.”
OK, rather.
too many things ruin other things.
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All Souls is the college of the elite circle of the Rhodesian network that is a central node origin of the round table group whos intention was the reconquest of America. I consider them the enemy.
"To and for the establishment, promotion, and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands wherein the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour, and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire."
"To and for the establishment, promotion, and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands wherein the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour, and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire."
It is an academic research institution, focusing on humanities, social sciences, and theoretical sciences. It maintains approximately 80 fellows, selected through various fellowship categories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls_College,_Oxford