First I had a test at my school and then a few months later (later December) I had two roughly half an hour interviews, each had two interviewers.

So in both interviews the topic of languages was discussed but only to a basic level, I didn’t do a language at A-level so it’s possible if you had this topic would be more in depth. I was also asked a little bit about something I’d put in my personal statement, and about a poem I was given to analysise before my interview.

On top of this I was also shown in one interview an artefact and asked some questions relating to it. Both my interviews were terrifyingat the time and I felt when I came out of them I’d done terribly. But equally even though they were scary interviews the people I was interviews by were lovely and there wasn’t really any sense that they were trying to catch me out at any point.

Using the Cambridge subject website was very useful in the fact it gives you a reading list, and probably the most useful thing I did in terms of preparating was reading some background subject stuff. This was more useful in the sense I felt confident that I wanted to do the subject rather than what I was asked about it in interviews.

And my school arranged a really short mock interview and although many of their questions were a lot less obscure than Cambridge’s it was helpful to have some understanding of what an interview might involve.

Don’t stress too much about interviews, mine felt like they were going awful and apparently they weren’t that bad. Try and answer a question even if you feel like it’s a stupid answer because your interviewers just want to see how you think.