Engineering Admissions Assessment (ENGAA); 1x interview
Interview 1: maths and physics questions
Practice questions from similar papers
The interview is designed to see if you are 'teachable'
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:
Number of interviews: 1
Length of interviews: 40 mins
Online interview: No
Almost all the questions in the interview were maths/physics questions that started easy and got progressively harder as assumptions were taken away.
By thinking out loud, if I struggled at any point, the interviewers would talk me through by giving me an extra piece of information so that I could solve the problem. I was made to feel relaxed.
For the
During the interview, think out loud so they can see your thinking process, which is absolutely key! Don't be too stressed, the interview is designed to see if you are 'teachable' - if you don't understand something that is fine. Ask your interviewers questions and then try to apply their answers to get a solution.