Biomedical Admissions Test; 3x Interviews.
Interview 1: questions about the brain; Interview 2: short science questions; Interview 3: chemistry and experiment-based questions.
Do BMAT and TSA practice papers.
Don't get too nervous or intimidated!
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: 3
Time between interviews: 30 minutes to an hour.
Length of interviews: 20 minutes
Online interview: No
Interview 1: We started with some settling in questions (why I wanted to do medicine etc.), and I was then asked questions about the brain.
Interview 2: There were short science questions for which I needed to draw diagrams. The first interviewer asked the questions and the second interviewer just sat and watched. I was probably most relaxed in this interview.
Interview 3: The first interviewer just sat and watched and the second interviewer asked chemistry and experiment-based questions.
I did BMAT practice papers (I used books as, unlike the UCAT, the BMAT exam is on paper). I also did some
The main thing is to not get too