Engineering Admissions Assessment (ENGAA); STEP; x2 interviews
Interview 1: working through 2-3 questions independently, personal statement; Interview 2: working through problems
mock interviews; rereading personal statement & revision notes
revision of A Level content; past papers
Try to stay calm and don't panic if your interviewer is giving you hints - they are only trying to help!
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: 2
Time between interviews: Took place on separate days
Length of interviews: Around 30 mins
Online interview: Yes
In my first interview, I had 30 minutes to work through 2 or 3 questions on my own. This was followed by about 20 minutes of discussion on the answers, as well as looking at one or two things from my personal statement. In the second interview, I was shown a series of problems to work through - the interviewer helped if I was struggling and prompted me if I went down the wrong track.
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For the ENGAA, I focused on revising content from A Level Maths and Physics - with a few gaps being filled in by doing just a couple of past papers. STEP was more demanding, and I needed to work on the foundation modules (which I recommend you start looking at early on) and then using past papers (I only had to do STEP II).
My key piece of advice is to try to stay calm, as this will help you speak more clearly and reduce the likelihood that you end up missing important bits of information. Also don't panic if the interviewer is giving you hints, they want you to be able to come up with a solution and also to make sure you can listen to feedback & advice when needed.