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Puzzles, induction, and the shape of how you think.

Oxford CS interviews lean on problems you haven't seen before. The interviewer wants to see how you set them up, how you handle being stuck, and whether you can recover from a wrong path.

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What we ask

Questions in the shape of the real thing.

Drawn from publicly reported interview content and the kind of reasoning that comes up year after year. The interviewer will follow up until your reasoning holds.

Induction

Prove that the sum of the first n odd numbers is n².

Recursion

How would you reverse a singly linked list? Walk me through your thinking.

Logic

If P implies Q, and Q is false, what can we say about P?

Algorithms

You have a stream of numbers — how would you find the median efficiently?

Puzzles

I have a 3-litre jug and a 5-litre jug. Can I measure exactly 4 litres?

Graphs

When does a graph have a closed walk that uses every edge exactly once?

One realistic mock takes ~30 minutes.

Pick a phase to practise in isolation, or run a full mock end-to-end.

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