Modern And Medieval Languages @ Jesus, Cambridge in 2018

Interview format

MML Admissions Assessment; 2x interviews.

Interview content

Interview 1: discussion of unseen passage, three interviewers, personal statement, discussion in target language; Interview 2: discussion of unseen text (article), personal statement, discussion in target language.

Test preparation

Used past papers; grammar revision; quizlet.com

Final thoughts

Practise a mock interview to ease nerves.

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.

Interview Format

Test taken: MML Paper
Number of interviews: 2
Time between interviews: 40 minutes
Length of interviews: 50 minutes
Online interview: No

What happened in your interview? How did you feel?

I was given 15 minutes to prepare a text. For French, it was a description from a novel and for German it was an article on technology. In the interview we discussed the text and what I thought about it in the target language. All my interviewers were very pleasant and polite. I had three interviewers for French which was unusual. The interview was half in the language talking about the text and then the rest was in English. They asked me about the books I had been reading (using my personal statement as a guide).

If you took a test, how did you prepare?

Past papers, A level grammar revision from class and vocab sets on Quizlet

What advice would you give to future applicants?

My main problem above anything else was being nervous. I don't know how I could overcome that. Maybe recreate the interview and replicate the conditions so you can practise managing your nerves.