Natural Sciences Admissions Assessment, 2x interviews
Interview 1: Physics-based; Interview 2: Based on both chemistry (including personal statement) and maths
Completed mock interviews; Completed practice questions; Went over personal statement
Completed past papers and used question banks
Speak through your thought process in an interview very clearly
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: 2
Time between interviews: 30 minutes
Length of interviews: 30 minutes
Online interview: Yes
My first interview was a physics interview, where we went through a number of questions in a range of topics including SHM, circuits and gravitation.
The second was based on both chemistry (involving mechanisms and something I mentioned on my personal statement) and maths (with graph skills).
If you can find someone to give you a
Another thing I did was find tough practice questions to do. I used Isaac Physics, though that's only useful for someone doing maths, physics or chemistry. They won't test you on knowledge beyond A-level syllabuses (except in examples as I'll say below), but they will give you questions that are harder than A-level, but use A-level skills so it's really important to have a very good understanding of your A-level subjects.
The only times they'll give you questions that require knowledge outside of A level is if you talk about it on your personal statement - so it's very important you know everything on your personal statement very well and can answer the majority of questions they could ask you about it.
Mainly practice papers, though in order to not use them all up at once I also used question banks e.g.
Speak through your logic very clearly. As you do this speaking, you are also stalling for time so you can let your brain think slowly through the question rather than panicking and rushing. Talking through your logic also tells the interviewers how you think, which is one of the main things they're interested in.
Be very open to hints and comments from them, as this shows you can adapt your thinking which is exactly what they want (since they'll likely be supervising you if you get in).