2 interviews: one for German with German Director of Studies and a German fellow from another college, one for Italian with a Director of Studies and an Italian fellow.

Both were roughly 25 minutes long + were preceded by 15 minutes reading time of an extract. German was in the morning, test at lunch, Italian in the afternoon. Admissions test in between - roughly an hour long, in college, required writing in German and English.

German interview: first 5 minutes were in German, involved analysis/discussion of the text we'd been given to read, had to read out one paragraph of the text in German, had to translate a bit (got it wrong but they moved on with the interview). 20 minutes discussing ideas relating to my personal statement e.g. books/films I'd mentioned, generally pushing more complex ideas derived from what I'd mentioned in personal statement.

Italian interview: started Italian 'ab initio' [from scratch] so there was no speaking in Italian, the text was in English, so we discussed that for first 5 minutes. More general discussion about Italian culture as well as my own interest - much more conversational in tone to the German interview.

A mock interviewat school and also with my friend's mum - she had no experience of doing interviews for MML but was good at grilling me on my personal statement so it was still very useful. Getting your parents or a friend to try and pick holes in/interrogate you about your personal statement was good - they always pick up on things you wouldn't notice. Finding example personal statements online on the Student Room - it can be difficult to know where to start.

You often have to send in essays with your application - be aware of this early on because teachers can be quite uncooperative/you might not have written many in class yet.