Hello, I'm Georgy Kantor.

I'm Ancient History Tutor at St John's College

and Admissions Coordinator for

Classical Archaeology and Ancient History.

This year, we're introducing
a new admissions test in CAAH,

Ancient History and Classical
Archaeology Admissions Test.

It will consist of two questions.

For the first,
you will read a short fragment

of academic writing

of the kind and level of difficulty
that you'll be likely

to read in your first year at university.

And for the second,

you'll look at an image of
ancient visual evidence,

artifact or a building, and you’ll
answer some questions about both.

You will have 90 minutes for

the two questions.

So it doesn't matter that
you do both exactly

in 45 minutes, but

they are graded
similarly at 50 points each,

so try to keep them roughly similar

depending on the speed of your writing.

The most important

tip for this is that

neither the academic writing,
nor the image

will have anything to do

with what you've studied at school.

So focus on what's in front of you.

Don't try to spend time thinking

what it relates to in
the subjects

I have already done.

Just comment on
what is there.

The mark is split

between paraphrasing the academic

writing or describing the image

and commenting on them,
offering a critique.

Do one first,

then proceed to the other.

So, for example, if you have an image,

describe it carefully,

think what is there in front of you,

not bringing interpretation in yet.

And then proceed to the interpretation.

These are different parts of the mark
and they can be different parts

of your mini essay.

There will be sample tests

on the university admissions
web pages

and on the faculty web page.

One of these will also be available,

and there is a link on
the university's webpage

to do on the Pearson platform.

And again, we recommend
you do it to see the environment

you'll get it as you will do it

in the test centre in October.

This is particularly important

to get your timing right.

Some of you will have adjustments

to your timing or other adjustments.

For example, to

the image question

based on visual impairment.

And it's important that you
check that these are in place

as you arrive in the test centre.

Thank you very much.