3 interviews over the day and an admissions test. One general Classics interview at Jesus with two professors. One language interview with two professors, but one took notes and remained silent whilst the other interviewed. One interview at St Johns with two professors. Admissions test a translation of a Latin passage.

Lots of discussion about the two pieces of submitted work, then branching out into more general questions that are related to the essays. They also handed out an image and asked me to analyse it.

Language interview was about a particular passage, which I had 30 minutes to study beforehand. Then I had to translate it in front of the professor and guess the author (we were not told beforehand). A dictionary was provided during the preparation time and we were allowed to write notes.

The admissions test was a single Latin passage which we had to translate; the non A-level vocab was glossed underneath, but there were no dictionaries available.

TAKE NOTES of everything: you never know what will be useful, but it's so useful to do a little last minute revision the night before or the journey up to Cambridge. From the tiniest titbit in a class to a lecture you attend at a Classics society, make sure you take notes or procure the slides so you can look back on them later.

Massolit - watching videos from current lecturers about subjects that really interest you. Like tragedy? Watch the numerous videos on it.

Ask a teacher for a mock interview if you can.

Each college interviews differently (I compared notes with a Classics student from Trinity who also got in the same year as me). Expect to be grilled on anything you willingly offer them - whatever you write in your personal statement or submitted work will be analysed by them first and foremost, so know what you've written really well, and read around those particular topics in more depth.

Extracurricular activities matter very little.