比起得出正确答案，面试官更希望看到你具有解决挑战的潜质。
<p>Hello, I'm Sam. 你好，我叫山姆。I studied English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford 我毕业于牛津大学莫德林学院</p><p>英语文学专业，and I want to tell you about my</p><p>interview experience. 我想和大家分享我的面试经 验。</p><p><br> </p><p>So, when I went for my interview at</p><p>Magdalen, there were two interviews that I knew about. 进入莫德林学院面试的时候，我知道的是有两场面试。</p><p>The first one was a short interview that I</p><p>was told was going to be about what I'd</p><p>written in my personal statement.第一场面试非常简短，主要问了一些关于文书的问题。</p><p>So I went into a room in Magdalen.</p><p>There were two tutors there.我进入莫德林面试房间的时候，有两个面试官在等着我，</p><p>They were fellows at Magdalen and they had my</p><p>personal statement in front of them and</p><p>they took me through it. 他们是莫德林的研究员，面前摆着我的文书，跟我一起过了一下文书相关内容。They asked me questions about books that I'd mentioned in my personal statement.</p><p>问了我文书中提到的“我阅读过的书”相关的几个问题。</p><p><br> </p><p>“Interviewers look for sparks of curiosity in applicants”</p><p>面试官主要是在申请者身上找“好奇心”。</p><p>I think mainly what they were</p><p>looking for was <strong>sparks of curiosity</strong>. </p><p>我认为面试官最想在面试者身上看到的是“好奇心”</p><p>If I seemed curious about something, </p><p>then they would ask me a bit more about it.</p><p>如果我表现出对某个事情很好奇，他们会基于这个点问更多的问题。</p><p>So I wrote about James Joyce, the famous</p><p>Irish modernist novelist and poet.</p><p>我文书提到了詹姆斯乔伊斯，著名的</p><p>爱尔兰现代主义小说家和诗人。</p><p>They asked me about his because </p><p>I mentioned Ulysses in my personal statement. 因为我在文书中提到了尤利西斯，他们也问了相关问题。</p><p>They asked me if I'd</p><p>read anything else by him. 他们问我是否会读他其他的著作。So it's quite casual, it's improvised and they might ask you a tricky question.</p><p>这种问题很常见，他们可能会突然问你一些比较难回答的问题。</p><p>So classic tricky questions</p><p>might be things like what's novel about</p><p>the novel or they might ask you a</p><p>specific thing about vocabulary like</p><p>“What was the early modern meaning of the</p><p>word fancy?” or something like.</p><p>比较典型的难题可能是提问小说的内容或者具体考察词汇，比如类似”fancy这个词最早的现代意义？“这样的题。</p><p><br> </p><p>“Interviewers are more interested to see if you have a go at challenging questions than if you get the right answer.”</p><p>比起得出正确答案，面试官更希望看到你具有解决挑战的潜质。</p><p><br> </p><p>But those sort of specific more challenging</p><p>questions have a go at them.</p><p>当给出更具有挑战性问题的时候，<strong>They're more interested to see if you have a go at it than if you get it right.</strong>比起你是否能得出正确答案，他们更在意你是否有解决问题的能力。</p><p><br> </p><p>If you enjoy the challenge,</p><p>they're looking to see what happens if,</p><p>when they challenge you in that</p><p>interview, </p><p>如果面试官抛出一个难题，他们会考察你作何反应。</p><p><br> </p><p>do you enjoy it or do you shut</p><p>down, if you enjoy it if you open up a</p><p>conversation with them, </p><p>他们会看你是乐于迎难而上还是就此止步，如果你乐于接受挑战，你们之间的话匣子就打开了。</p><p>if you try different things,如果你勇于尝试不同的东西， then that suggests to them that you will enjoy the 1:1 tutoring experience that you look to get at Oxford and Cambridge. 他们就会由此判断你适合牛剑一对一的教育模式。So that was my first interview 50 minutes long. 我的第一场面试持续了50分钟。Then my second interview was a much longer more involved process much more like the 1:1 tutorial. 相比第二场面试长得多，更像是经历了一场一对一教学。So I went into a room there was an envelope with my name on it and inside was a little booklet of passages, mix of poems letters and quotations. 我进入房间的时候面前摆着一个写着我名字的信封，里面是本印有段落节选的小册子，既有诗句又有引用。I read my way through those and made some notes 我自己读完并做了一些笔记and then I went in for a 1:1 kind of tutorial with one of the fellows that I hadn't met yet at Magdalen然后跟一位我从未见过的莫德林学院的老师进行了类似一对一教学的讨论and <strong>she asked me what I was particularly</strong></p><p><strong>interested in and what I'd read and asked for some thoughts</strong>. 她问读完上述材料我最感兴趣的是什么以及我的想法。 So she would always let me steer it. 她一直把话语主动权交给我。<strong>“She</strong></p><p><strong>would say okay where do you want to</strong></p><p><strong>start. 不管是否想开始，她都说好的。Okay you want to look at this stanza of this poem. 如果你想看这首诗的一节，她也说好。Why do you</strong></p><p><strong>want to look at this stanza. 你为什么想看What do you find interesting in this line is there</strong></p><p><strong>anything you notice here.” 这一行哪点最能引起你的注意是你应该要留意的。</strong></p><p><br> </p><p>“Don't be afraid to improvise a response based on something that you don't fully understand yet” > 遇到不能完全理解的问题，也不要害怕临场作答。“You're allowed to have a conversation with them. 你可以跟他们对话。</p><p>It's meant to be like a tutorial and they're seeing how well you respond” 你就想像成跟教学一样，他们会看你作何反应“ So it's a conversation. 所以这是一场对话。I would say my top</p><p>tip for this section is <strong>don't be afraid</strong></p><p><strong>to improvise a response based on</strong></p><p><strong>something that you don't fully</strong></p><p><strong>understand yet</strong>. 我的建议是遇到自己不能完全理解的东西，不要乱了阵脚，不要害怕临场发挥。</p><p> It's something where there's going to be call and response between you. 你跟面试官之间是可以有回应的。You could say “I'm not sure</p><p>what this word means” or “I think this is</p><p>interesting because ‘this’... Do you agree?”</p><p>你可以说“我不是很确定这个是什么意思” 或者“因为这点，我觉得非常有意思。。。。。。你觉得呢？”<strong>You're allowed to have a</strong></p><p><strong>conversation with them. 你可以跟他们对话。</strong></p><p><strong>It's meant to be like a tutorial and they're seeing how well you respond </strong>to working with a more mature, more sophisticated mind in your subject area as a kind of partner to guide you</p><p>to lead you by the hand through</p><p>the extracts in front of you. 意味着这更像是一次教学，他们更像是引导你指导你的搭档，想看看在面对这个学科领域的大佬们时你会作何反应。</p><p><br> </p><p>My other tip, my final tip is to make sure</p><p>that you make a quick note or several notes about what you've discussed in your interviews</p><p>straight after you come out of the</p><p>interview 我最后建议你面试结束后，快速记录面试过程中讨论过的问题 because you might be invited</p><p>for another interview. 因为你很有可能要参加多场面试。 If you, are</p><p>they might ask you to remind them of</p><p>what you talked to them about before. 面试官很有可能让你说说之前的面试都被问到过哪些问题。</p><p>That happened to me.我就被问到过。 I was invited to a</p><p>third interview and they</p><p>instantly started with “So what did we</p><p>discuss last time?” 我被要求参加了第三场面试，那时候面试官就问了我“上次面试你们讨论了什么？”and I couldn't</p><p>remember any of it and I had to say I</p><p>don't remember我完全记不住，所以我只能说 it's gone completely</p><p>out of my head because of the adrenaline</p><p>which they were really nice about but I</p><p>now think I should have</p><p>made sure that I remembered it.上场面试非常的棒，肾上腺素作用我大脑一片空白，没能记住，现在想想我应该记下来的。’So yeah I</p><p>hope that helps that was my interview</p><p>experience at Magdalen.</p><p>希望我在莫德林学院的面试经验对你有用。</p>