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Hi Madam, thanks for your question. Unfortunately the workload is quite heavy - students are expected to write 2-3 pieces of assignment each week (e.g., two 1500 essay, one problem sheet) on top of all the readings required. However, please be rest assured that work-life balance are achievable - there are a lot of events going on in Oxford and generally everyone around your son would be in the same boat, so it would be like a study + social situation most times. Major exams are held once a year, but there are termly exams (called collections) at the beginning of each term. Hope this helps

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Hi Greason, I cannot comment on this as I am neither the admission team nor the professors that make the decisions. However, from my understanding, having a psychology a-level or not is not a relevant question -- having it would just mean that you showed your strong interest in the subject and you would have a leg up in preparing for the interview; but not having it would mean you need to show your interest in Psychology in other ways. Hope this helps

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hi oxblue, thank you for your comment! A typical day would be like this: lectures in the morning, project meeting/work on the project, the head to the hospital for labs if there's any, work on the essays in the evening. For selecting projects, I covered a lot in this MSc Q&A video: czcams.com/video/t9GA30mvJcc/video.html For me personally, I have chosen based on my interest in the field and my skillsets - both of my projects involved heavy data analysis/coding. hope this helps!

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hi akiho, thank you for your interest. From my understanding, although grades are important, your application is reviewed based on all materials you applied to. I have a friend who got a low 2:1 but received several fully funded PhD places because she has really strong research experience (several lab rotations + some publications). The skill sets this program is looking for is primarily research skills - you need to demonstrate that you can work on a scientific project with only little guidance along the way; some ways to show this is by quoting prior research experience and skills you have learned in your personal statement (e.g., data analysis skills, working with multi-dimensional data, working with many different types, coding ability OR a lot of patient facing experience, collecting patients data, undertaken work in a clinical setting). Extra curricular activities are not one of the evaluation criteria so I strongly recommend only give 1-2 sentences for it since you only have 500 words for your personal statement. hope this helps! leave any more questions in the comment and i'll try my best to help. good luck with your application!

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hi ambrose, thank you for your kind comments! indeed i do haha, my college dad studied PPL at Queen's (i think you can ask mark/denielle for his detail - he is in class of 2020 - and he got top in year in everything hh). and don't worry! PPL students gets the same level of supports as EP students in terms of everything (and mark & danielle are all very nice, they will make sure everyone is ok!). For lectures and tutorials, PPL would share the same Psychology modules (they've chosen) with EP. hope this helps!

Hi Roseann, congratulations!! you are going to have amazing times ahead here <3. You can park on Queen's lane, which is a lane in between Queen's college main site and Carrodous quod (where freshers will be housed). There will be JCR executives around helping and organising things. They would allow six cars to park at one time and help unload and bring to the room (at least this is the case when i was an JCR exec and helping the year below moving in)!

Hi Justine, you do not need to contact supervisors in advance before applying for this course :) All project supervisors will be assigned during the course.

hi yuhe, congratulations for getting into the program! The Qualification Exam is quite hard, but all you need is pass (i.e., 50 > 100) and everyone will pass (Phil, the program director, also didn't tell us our individual scores). The exam consisted of 100 multiple choice questions with 3 options for each question. I would say that this exam is easier for those with a biochem/biomed background than for those with a psychology background. The cohort is roughly 15 to 20 people, with quite a high proportion of international students. Hope this helps!

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hi abhishek, that is such an interesting field you are pursuing! Would you please give me more details on what you do and exactly what you need help with?

Hi Manu, im glad you found it helpful! According to the course admission website (www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-clinical-therapeutic-neuroscience), "Publications are not expected but, when documented on CVs, will be taken into account." In my case, I did have a 1st author peer-review publication in a journal. I completely two main project prior to this master, one is a summer research internship and the other one is the final year research project. I didn't take the interview as I was offered a place directly; but I do have some info on the interview process for this master from a friend. I could make a video about it if that would help <

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Hi Ilham, if you are referring to MSc by Research in Experimental Psychology, this is a research master degree (i.e., more like a phd); in contrast, the MSc in Psychological Research is a taught master degree, they have a lot more lecturing content/courses.

Hi Jed, well done for getting in! I am at the Queen's College under a scholarship. In my other videos, I have very detailed break down about choosing accommodation & information on colleges, hope these help!

hi Rafael, according to the Oxford application statistics, the course receives around 100 application per year and accepts around 20 students per year.

Hi wildey, that's absolutely possible -- it is exactly what i did! I have an experimental psychology bachelor and am currently reading a neuroscience master. To do this, make sure you i) pick relevant modules/courses in your undergrad, ii) do lab experiences that is relevant to neuroscience, and iii) highlight in your personal statement why you want to do neuroscience; hope this helps!

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@@wildey015 Yes! That is the case if you are referring to the Oxford Experimental Psychology course. In third year, you have the opportunity to pick either two or three courses from (what i remembered) around 25 available 'advanced options'; i would say about a third of them are biology/physiology-focused; alternatively, in the third year, you can also opt to take the medical neuroscience paper (which is what i did for a while) and that consisted of systems neuroscience and cellular neuroscience.

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Can I do this with BSc psychology rather than experimental psychology?