First interview (one I applied to) was at Kings. It was a test followed by a group interview and then an individual one. I barely finished the test and throughout felt like I did crap but still got pooled so your impression isn't everything! The group interview was practical criticism, analysing an extract as a group - it felt a bit scary as I'm not the most confident and everyone else seemed to act like they knew what they were doing a lot more but again - don't worry if you think you've not done well confidence isn't everything! The individual interview was with two interviewers, one from the college and one from Downing.

My Murray Edwards pool interview was 2 individual interview with 2 interviewers in each one - they were all very nice and reassuring!

I can't remember exactly but they asked very specific questions about books I mentioned in my personal statement so make sure you know stuff you talk about inside out and are comfortable about going into the specifics. For example I mentioned Hamlet and so one question was a very specific one about the relationship between two key characters.

I read a lot in the summer before applying and revised the books I put in my personal statement almost like I was revising for an exam on them - I think that and just paying attention when you're doing close reading in class is the most important stuff!

Don't worry if interviewers are constantly looking for and sounding unimpressed or if you struggle - I left my interview convinced it was gonna be a straight out rejection but it turned out to have gone a lot better than I thought it had!