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Cambridge doesn’t operate on the basis of teaching you how to do things; it just assumes you can and looks and says “how sad” if you e.g. turn out to have no idea how to write an essay.

(Thing I just wrote in DMs, and thought worth grousing about in public.)

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in reply to Alexandra Lanes

this is my experience of all education beyond level three. Not right for my brain at all
in reply to xanna

@xanna The OU does it better in that they actually seem to realise people do not spring fully formed into degree courses able to write essays.