The entrance exam for All Souls College at Oxford University has been called the world's hardest test. That's because it's nearly impossible to revise for. The questions are abstract and there are ...

The world’s most worldly ivory tower is tiny All Souls College, the select nook at Oxford University that since 1438 has operated on the theory that men of learning should also be men of influence.

The most feared exam in the world has been dropped. For over a century those hoping to study at All Souls College in Oxford opened an envelope with trepidation to discover just one word inside.

An admissions requirement for All Souls College here, it was meant to test intellectual agility, but sometimes seemed to test only the ability to sound brilliant while saying not much of anything.

Dumbing down has seeped upwards into Britain's seat of highest learning. All Souls College, Oxford – the graduates-only college, where the brainiest of brainiacs breathe a rarefied intellectual ...