2x interviews
1st interview: source (given in advance); 2nd interview: coursework
Mock interview, online information, reading around source & personal statement
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I had 2 interviews, both with 2 interviewers. The first was based on a source I’d had two weeks to analyse, the second on my personal statement with a focus on my
The source was based on using primary sources to construct a spacial history of a large city.
The second interview was based on nationalisms and how they differ as that was the focus of my coursework etc, it also looked into the relation between pre modernity and modernity.
The Student Room for information. I watched a mock interview on the Emmanuel College page. I emailed the head of a school near mine who I’d heard did history at Cambridge and got a
Then just a lot of reading around the source and my own personal statement and I tried to practice thinking abstractly.
Just demonstrate that even if you’re stuck you’re willing to try really hard to think your way out of it.