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Think like a university tutor
At Oxford and Cambridge, lessons are conversations: a tutor asks a question, you commit to an answer, and then together you find out whether it survives. These three short dialogues let you feel what that is like. Click the answers you find most convincing and see where the questions take you.
Click, do not type
Every answer is a button. Pick the one closest to what you think.
No wrong doors
Every choice leads somewhere interesting. Tutors care about reasons, not right first guesses.
No AI here
Every word was written and checked by a person. AVA's AI tools are for ages 16 and over.
Pick a dialogue
A note for teachers and parents
This taster is a set of pre-written, editor-reviewed dialogue trees. There is no artificial intelligence on this page, no free-text input, no account, and nothing is collected or stored. It is designed as a Key Stage 3 introduction to dialogic thinking: committing to an answer, giving a reason, meeting a counterexample and refining a claim.
AVA's interactive AI tools (interview practice, debate, personal statement support) are designed and safeguarded for students aged 16 to 18 and are not available to younger students. If you teach this age group, our teachers page includes a printable resource on Socratic questioning for the classroom.