The world really must have gone bananas recently!

Picture the scene – you're an impressionable, talented 17-year-old who's applying for their universities for next year.

You're ridiculously nervous having bagged yourself an Oxbridge interview which could determine the whole path of your future.

You sit down in the seat and the interviewer says: "Tell me about a banana."

It sounds a bit bonkers but, according to the Independent, this may actually happen.

A new book published by Rachel Spedding and Jane Walsh has revealed the wacky question has actually been asked to prospective Oxbridge candidates.

Apparently, the writers of the book, which is designed to help interviewees cope with the gruelling admissions process, believe "you do not need an encyclopaedic memory to answer Oxbridge questions successfully, nor do you have to be a genius in the making".

"Oxbridge interview questions are designed to get applicants thinking laterally and logically and test how they use their existing knowledge, ascertaining whether the applicant will thrive, learning in the intimate environment of the tutorial or supervision system," they were quoted by the news provider as saying.

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