My interview was in mid-December. I had 2 interviews; the first one was with one professor in a really chill lounge-like room sitting on a sofa, the second was more formal with two people and I was given an article to read 20 minutes beforehand which they then asked me questions about along with other things.

In the first interview I was asked a question to relax me & get me thinking about geography. I mentioned wind turbines which led to a large proportion of my interview to be discussing climate change etc. I was also asked a question about ice sheets which was quite challenging, involved a bit of general very basic maths to work out and was fairly long winded. I freaked out a bitat first as I had no clue how to answer, but just spoke aloud what I was thinking and different ways I might go about answering and it seemed to go okay.

The second interview was a bit more stressful; they asked me about a book I had mentioned in my personal statement then went on to ask questions on the article they'd given me. I found it quite difficult to decipher the article but I think the best thing to do if they ask something hard is to take your time, not freak out and simply speak what's on your mind and what you think about it.

Looking at the news and talking about what I think about it with my parents/ school people, reading 'Landgrabbers' book and odd snippets of other random geography books I found interesting.

Trying to get a practice interview or time aside with your A level teacher to get them to ask you questions is also useful just for getting more comfortable in an interview-type setting.

To be honest though, I think as long as you start getting an interest in the subject and developing a more questioning and deeper way of looking at things there isn't really much else you can do. A lot of others at my school had spent way more time reading loads more books than me and meeting with teachers more etc but I was the only one who got in in the end - I think that kind of proves how it is so much about how you think rather than how much you can read, which takes the pressure off believing you have to do so much extra stuff!! Questioning things more and discussing geography news articles with people is probably the best thing you can do!

Good luck! And if you find it hard, that's likely a good sign and means that they see potential in you and want to stretch you! Don't overthink it and have confidence in yourself - if it's meant to be it will happen and if not it really isn't the end of the world :)