2 x 30 min interviews, both technical and each with 2 fellows. Fun details: There's a common waiting room where everyone with an interview, across all subjects, chills. Met a dude there and kept in touch with him incase he got in (he didn't :( ). It got me quite excited to speak to other people doing the same thing as me and it did help calm my nerves. There are also friendly students there who will take you to your interview. They are paid and generally want to do a good job! Be yourself around them, they don't affect your assessment in anyway and can be a good laugh. Also a great way to find out about what your course is like and what the people at Emma are generally like.

Thinking Skills Assessment(TSA): It was in an external building when I did it but I was taken there along with the rest of the candidates by someone so didn't have to find the building by myself. Really not sure how much this test affects your application.

General: There was a graph sketch, a couple of mechanics questions and an electronics question. They were all challenging questions but they wasn't any content that I hadn't seen before at all; all of it was just at a higher difficulty than A Level. I feel in all questions there was no real expectation of getting a perfect answer but it was good to be able to talk through the problem as far as possible. I thought both interviews went terribly and that I definitely hadn't got in since I said some stupid things. But as long as you keep talking through and generating ideas, it's all good. If you freeze, say why you're stuck and they'll help you! :)

Special: I had to choose a broad engineering question from a given list (e.g. Structural Engineering) and a broad engineering topic to talk about. This helps because they asked one question across the two interviews that related to the broad engineering area (the electronics question for me) and one interview allowed me to talk about the topic I had chosen.

I prepared thoroughly for the topic (including technical details) I had chosen which meant I was able to handle challenging questions and have interesting conversations with the interviewers.

GRAPH SKETCHING! I had extra sessions with maths teachers on this (among other topics) and it really helps. I also had mock interview practice for a couple of hours with a Physics teacher where he absolutely grilled me. I also had (somewhat) weekly sessions with maths teachers where we went through an interview question. It's more beneficial doing sessions with teachers where you are asked a question on the spot so you can practice talking through it rather than extra lessons where they teach you the new material. I also went on i-want-to-study-engineering.org but tried to talk the problems through to my parents or with some of my friends also doing Oxbridge interviews rather than working through them in my own time so that I, again, had more practice talking through problems.

I knew a student at Emma but he didn't tell me his specific interview questions which was a great thing actually! It was better asking about the format so I wasn't surprised, which you can now read on this website!

Enjoy yourself! The interview is like a Cambridge supervision which is a unique and fantastic experience lots of people don't get to go through. Even though I was really upset after the interviews, when I look back, I really enjoyed them both.

Generally, it's impossible to tell how your interview went so don't worry about it or get too excited if you think you smashed it.