Test taken: Engineering Admissions Assessment (ENGAA)
Number of interviews: 2
Time between interviews: 2-3 hours
Length of interviews: 25 minutes
Online interview: No

1st Interview: discussed a set of questions that was given to me an hour before the interview to work through. I didn't finish all of them but I did enough that we had plenty to talk about. The questions were based on basic principles of maths and physics. The atmosphere in the room was lovely as these interviewers were extremely friendly and upbeat.

2nd Interview: the first 10 minutes was all about discussing me and why I wanted to do engineering and what I liked to do in my spare time, which came as a pleasant surprise as I'd expected they'd only care about how good at maths and physics I was. Then they gave 3 simple-looking problems that each required a good bit of thinking but not much writing or calculations. One of them I never even managed to complete, but the interviewers explained it to me at the end and were very friendly about it again. One of the interviewers here was leading the interview, the other welcomed me at the start and then took notes and said nothing for the rest of the interview.

I found online that Engineering interviews at Cambridge often have a few maths questions that you're meant to talk through and discuss with the interviewers so I practiced tricky maths and physics questions on IsaacPhysics (a free website which has great revision stuff that I strongly reccomend) as well as doing some reading of engineering books from the Cambridge Engineering list of suggested reading. I read 2 or 3 from the list, none were particularly long but they were interesting.

In the hours before the interview I went to TheEngineer.co.uk and read a few of the articles that looked the most interesting, in case they asked me if I knew "what is going on at the moment in engineering" or a similar question. I also practiced answering the question "why do you want to study engineering", focusing on my evidence of what I'd done to show I had a real genuine interest (i.e: projects or reading or work experience).

I did the 2 past ENGAA papers that existed, and I did the bits I could on lots of A Level Maths past papers. The best way to prepare is just to do lots of questions so you become as familiar as you can with the content. I also did the maths sections in the PAT as practice.

Do lots of Maths A Level questions to revise. That is the best way to prepare yourself for any technical problems. Make sure you have a genuine interest in engineering which you can prove to the interviewer, i.e: meaningful projects, reading, work experience or other that you've pursued yourself and wasn't just handed to you.