&quot;the &quot;right&quot; answers select for a particular political perspective, notably the question about banking.&quot;<p>No they don&#x27;t.  The article gave two nuanced answers from different perspectives:<p>&quot;A simple answer might be ... just the outcome of a competitive labour market....&quot;<p>“An alternative story is that the banking industry is not competitive ...&quot;<p>My Oxford interview (&gt;20 years ago, mind) had a mixture of technical-ish questions (calculate the equilibrium point of these two demand&#x2F;supply curves) and more open-ended ones (is inflation good or bad, and why?).