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Nice one, Fielding. I didn't meet Mr Amis, but I know what you mean.
When I sat the entrance exams for King's College, Cambridge, at around the same time and year, I got alphas for all the literature papers, but I did woefully on the Biblical Knowledge exam. I can't even remember the interview.
Discrimination? Scripture lessons were never my strong point.
I always imagine I won a place at Oxford, soon afterwards, largely because of an original essay on the treatment of disabled people, with reference to Kafka's short story 'Metamorphosis'.
Where the education system failed a lot of talented people who may have lacked something in self-confidence in their teens was the failure to provide training in interview technique and CV writing.
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