Economics @ Jesus, Cambridge in 2019

Interview format

ECAA (Economics Admissions Assessment), 2x interviews

Interview content

Problem sheets, maths, reading and discussing a paper

Best preparation

Revising Year 12 content, Youtube resources, practice questions

Test preparation

Practice questions

Final thoughts

Get used to thinking out loud and getting things wrong

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.

Interview Format

Test taken: ECAA (Economics Admissions Assessment)
Number of interviews: 2
Time between interviews: 3 hours 
Length of interviews: 45 mins
Online interview: No

What happened in your interview? How did you feel?

There was no discussion of my personal statement, just problem sheets. One around maths, another focused on reading and discussing a paper.

How did you prepare for your interviews?

Revising Year 12 content, watching past interviews on YouTube, coming up with questions to test myself.

If you took a test, how did you prepare?

TMUA (Test of Mathematics for University Admission) and MAT questions

What advice would you give to future applicants?

Focus less on memorising content, get used to thinking out loud and getting things wrong.