None; 2x interviews.
Interview 1: personal background; Interview 2: maths and physics questions, unfamiliar material, problem solving.
Come prepared with an understanding of the interview process.
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Make sure you think aloud!
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: None
Number of interviews: 2
Time between interviews: 15 minutes
Length of interviews: 1 hour
Online interview: No
One of the interviews was a general discussion about my background and education up to that point. The other was much more technical, it started with a short question sheet with some basic maths problems, that
The last question seemed to be inspired by my personal statement because I outlined some of my interests in sciences there, and I was asked a question from an area that was completely separate from any of them. I believe that was to test how well I apply my knowledge and skills to novel, previously unseen, problems and situations. I needed a lot of help from the interviewers to get anywhere with that question, which might be one of the reasons I got
I browsed the internet to read about what Oxbridge interviews typically look like.
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Try to be as explicit in explaining your thought process out loud, that will allow the interviewers to see how you think and correct mistakes if they see fit, preventing you from wasting time on useless lines of enquiry. Probably partly because of