QUANTUM PREP INSIGHTS

Oxbridge interviews are always very specific and technical, but what are the professors looking for in your answers? Let’s dissect an example Chemistry interview question from Oxford: Please rank the following seven molecules in order of acidity. Right away, this is already shaping up to be quite a weird question. A lot of the compounds listed are not traditionally considered acids. How can we rank them in terms of acidity if they are not acids? Let’s take the quantitative approach