The 1-Year Masterclass
A whole year working one to one with an Oxford and Cambridge academic team. Every programme is designed around one student, and no two students receive the same year of work.
A year designed for students who do not want to leave their academic development to chance.
The 1-Year Masterclass is meticulously designed by academics from Oxford and Cambridge to provide the depth, intellectual independence and clarity that a school timetable cannot always make room for. We reimagine how a student learns to think, question and defend an idea, then build an exact year of work around what would move that student furthest.
The Full-Year Tutorial Programme runs in two forms: Foundations for the earlier years, and Preparation for students within two years of applying. The Admissions Intensive covers a single application season, and Interview Preparation is available on its own. Every route is built on Delta, our admissions research.
Full-Year Tutorial Programme
Weekly one-to-one tutorials across a full year, as Foundations or Preparation.
The Admissions Intensive
The most concentrated thing we do, from joining day until the interviews.
Interview Preparation
Mock interviews on unseen material, with detailed feedback after every session.
Every programme is designed for one student, and never repeated.
For students in the earlier years of secondary school, where an application is still several years away.
For families who want to build depth early and leave nothing important to chance. Across a full year, the student works weekly with a Lead Academic Mentor in their own subject, at a depth and pace a school syllabus cannot offer. A Development Mentor builds reasoning aloud, arguing a position, holding a view under questioning, and writing with precision.
The year is built around an Independent Academic Research Project: the student’s own question, read around properly over months, written up, and defended out loud.
For students with at least a full year before they apply.
Our most rigorous full-year route for students who want every part of the application to rest on real academic strength. Preparation does everything Foundations does, with the application built on top of it. The student works weekly with a Lead Academic Mentor in their subject, and fortnightly with an Admissions Strategist who holds course selection, the application timeline, and admissions preparation together.
The personal statement is written out of reading the student has actually done. The admissions test is sat on preparation. The interview is not the first one they have done.
For students applying to Oxford or Cambridge in the current cycle. By application only.
The most concentrated thing we do. The Intensive runs from the day a student joins until their interviews, and it has no fixed length: it is built to whatever runway remains. Mock interviews on unseen material, the personal statement tailored line by line, structured preparation for the specific admissions test that student will sit, and the subject depth that makes the statement credible and the interview survivable.
Mock interviews on unseen material, by people who have sat on the other side of the process.
Every session ends with detailed, structured feedback, and students are assessed against the university’s own interview criteria, so a student knows not only how they did but what the panel was listening for.
Ten sessions
For students who already have a base and need pressure-testing before December.
Twenty sessions
Interview technique built over a sustained run of sessions, across the autumn.
I have been working with my Oxford tutor on my personal statement, test aptitude, and interviewing skills. Not only has it really been helping to work with someone who had been successfully through the process themselves, but her guidance is allowing me to make my whole application coherent.
Who teaches
Every mentor comes from Oxford or Cambridge, and students are matched by subject, and where possible by college.
The undergraduate knows the process as it is now. The doctoral researcher knows the subject as the university teaches it.
The subject in depth
DPhil candidates at Oxford and PhD candidates at Cambridge, who teach undergraduates in their own faculties and bring the depth that carries a student well past what any test requires.
The process as it is now
Reading the exact subject at the exact university their student is applying to. They sat the same test, answered the same kind of interview question, and wrote a statement that impressed. That knowledge has a short shelf life, which is precisely why it is valuable.
The programme opened my mind to possibilities I hadn’t considered. My tutor helped me get real clarity.