All Souls College discontinues its tradition of the dreaded one word essay exam

According to this article the one-word-question essay exam was one of the most dreaded part of the application to the prestigious All Souls College in Oxford. However, it was by no means the only hard essay part of the examination process. We learn that:

"First they have to take the exam. It consists of 12 hours of essays over two days. Half are on the applicants’ academic specialties, the other half on general subjects, with questions like: “Do the innocent have nothing to fear?” “Isn’t global warming preferable to global cooling?” “How many people should there be?” and the surprisingly relevant, because this is Britain: “Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants wear Nazi uniforms?”