NSAA; 2x interviews
Interview 1: Subject questions; Interview 2: Subject questions.
Practice papers and support from teachers.
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Don't worry about stupid mistakes.
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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: Natural Sciences Admissions Assessment (NSAA)
Number of interviews: 2
Skype interview: No
Time between interviews: They were on the same day
Length of first interview: 10 minutes; Length of second interview: 10 minutes (this is maybe an underestimation!)
Nothing was discussed outside of two chemistry questions within each interview, there were 4 questions in total. There was a biologically orientated one and a more thermodynamics one, the remaining two were pure chemistry. As far as I'm concerned they
I used both practice papers! My teachers gave me a
I was terrified that I would have had to have done gold DofE and run the country for three months, volunteered in a hospital and done 20 GCSEs, but it turns out