My interview was in November; I stayed overnight at the college as it was a fairly long drive (3 hrs) from my house. The room was very nice, and I felt very relaxed.

I had 2 separate interviews, each 30 mins long, with a decent gap in the middle, where I was waiting in a room with other interviewees. A student took me to each of the interviews, which were with 2 academics (in each).

The interviewers made me feel very at ease and I relaxed almost immediately, despite being very nervous just before going in The questions were mainly slightly abstract problems that I had no idea how to answer, so it was a question of working through what I could out loud, bouncing any and every idea off the interviewers so they could guide me towards the correct result.

I remember only one question I could answer fairly well straight away, as it was just visualisation in 3D, which I guess you kind of get straight away or not. On the other hand, I remember getting some basic maths completely wrong even after being asked if I was sure it was right.

So overall, the questions were tricky, but it's all about how you approach answering something that you have no experience with/knowledge of.

Two prior interviews at Manchester and Imperial were very helpful, as although they were much less mentally strenuous, they gave me confidence that I wouldn't crumble in an interview situation. Practice interview with the headteacher of my secondary school was also fairly helpful in terms of talking with an adult in that environment, but wasn't very focused on my subject. A practice interview day at a centre in London wasn't very helpful. Going over my A-Level syllabi (what I'd studied so far) was fairly helpful. I didn't speak to any current students before.