3x interviews
Interview 1: translating English sentences; Interview 2: personal statement; Interview 3: asking questions on a source
Brushed up on Latin
Expect to be asked a variety of questions you couldn't possibly prepare for
Remember this advice isn't official. There is no guarantee it will reflect your experience because university applications can change between years. Check the official Cambridge and Oxford websites for more accurate information on this year's application format and the required tests.
Also, someone else's experience may not reflect your own. Most interviews are more like conversations than tests and like, any conversation, they are quite interactive.
Test taken: None
Number of interviews: 3
Time between interviews: A few hours
Length of interviews: 20 minutes
Online interview: No
I was asked about general "big" classical ideas, given some simple English sentences and asked which of bits of them would be hard to translate if it were a foreign language (the idioms etc.). Then I was asked why I wanted to study it and about my personal statement. Finally I was given a source and told to ask the interviewer questions about it.
I read over my personal statement, brushed up on my Latin, and
Don't try and prepare too much because Classics is so varied, you don't know what will come up.