Oxford has swapped its notoriously hard entrance exams for generic ones used by other universities, to 'streamline' the process for candidates. We don’t want identikit minds in this country.’Oxford’s entrance exams, dramatized in Alan Bennett’s 1980s nostalgia play The History Boys, have taken various forms in recent decades. The new computerised exams are run by University Admissions Tests UK (UAT UK), a partnership between Imperial and Cambridge. While previously, Oxford applicants took subject-specific tests, now they will take one of the three offered by UAT UK. The Oxford-specific entrance exam surely gave advantage to pupils from schools with strong Oxford links and the ability meaningfully to support Oxford applications.