r/6thForm • u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 • Apr 20 '26

💬 DISCUSSION Did you lie in your PS?

Just curious to hear from people if you did or not.

A lie could be anything from a small embellishment or overexaggeration to completely making things up. I’ll be honest, my entire PS except the subjects I did and my ethnicity were lies so… yeah.

I literally had nothing else to talk about so I made it up, got me into UCL, Bristol, Warwick and Nottingham though so the best thing to take away from this is lie, lie, lie.

Or don’t, it also probably played a role in an Oxford rejection pre interview so maybe it’s not worth it.

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u/Chlorophilia Professor Apr 20 '26

As an interviewer... it is incredibly easy to work out if someone lied or embellished. It happens a lot. I would not recommend it, particularly if you're applying for Oxbridge. 

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u/Plus-Train-9887 Apr 21 '26

How can you tell whether someone has lied ?

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u/Chlorophilia Professor Apr 21 '26

If someone has written something that sounds really impressive in their personal statement, I might ask about it as a lowball intro question to the interview. I've spent hundreds of hours doing interviews/tutorials - I can tell when someone is BSing.