Sample Questions from the All Souls Examination at Oxford

Personally I'm curious what valid scoring mechanism there is for a test with "abstract questions with no right or wrong answers."

Unless, of course, it were some old-boys club of insiders trying to feel special about themselves by excluding others... but surely Oxford grads would see through that...

I can respond to your comment here. There is no right or wrong way for me to do so. You and others can still evaluate my comment and decide its worth.

Yoi can even score it by counting the upvotes and downvotes.

Does that make HN's scoring system invalid?

I would really like to see some of the responses from successful applicants. I emailed a few of them, and unfortunately they said that the responses are destroyed after selecting the winners, perhaps one of the winners could try to recreate a few of their responses.

All Souls is unique among Oxbridge colleges in having no undergrads.

I went to Green Templeton, an Oxford college with no undergrads. There are 8 Oxford colleges which accept only graduate students:http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/colleges/college-lis...

IIRC, All Souls is a bit different, in that there are no students at all. It's just fellows doing research.