Interview 1: recent developments, abstract discussion; Interviews 2 and 3: personal statement, then problem solving
Signed up for the Nature Briefing newsletter, listened to podcasts, rereading content
Practised timed papers, BMAT Ninja
Listen to and read things about current work in your subject. Enthusiasm is key!
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.
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St Anne's interview: asked about my favourite thing to talk about at the moment in the field of biomedical sciences - I can remember talking about cancer immunotherapy for probably far too long! I was then asked about interesting recent developments in the subject, and I can remember talking about AI and stem cell therapies (please please listen to the This Week in Neuroscience podcast episode about astrocyte/neuron conversion in the eye if you like this sort of stuff, it is very very cool). Then I got given an abstract to read and explain, and although I didn't have long on this, I definitely relaxed into it. I came out feeling ok and quite grateful for the experience.
St Hugh's: 2 panels, 2 x 20min interviews. Both started with personal statement questions (but I didn't really get to expand much though). We then moved to "problems": genetic diagrams, frog organs, pH and haemoglobin, and I had to have some concepts I hadn't covered in class yet explained to me. To be honest, it felt horrible and incredibly inarticulate and stupid after these, but it's really common to feel like this, so please don't worry!
Signed up for the Nature Briefing! This was the most useful thing by far - this is a free daily newsletter produced by the scientific journal Nature. Do it a few months in advance, read the articles you think are interesting and relevant, or are big developments in the subject. I also continued to listen to all my favourite podcasts! Some of my favourites include: This Week in Neuroscience, Immune, This Podcast Will Kill You, The Science Hour (BBC World Service), and Genetics Unzipped. Reread and properly learnt some of my favourite subject-related things that I'd read in books. Reread personal statement and EPQ, though didn't really use this in my interviews!
Recapped Section 2 BMAT content and read up for/began to practice rough essays in the time limit over the summer. From September to November, did 2 timed practice papers a week (set Saturday and Wednesday afternoon slots for myself to do a timed paper, review answers, and redo tricky questions!). I used BMAT Ninja to get the online version of many papers, and then the official CAAT website to find the rest of the papers (PDF versions). A good, small book for example, for the philosophy of science style essays is
Listen to and read things about current work in your subject. Podcasts by researchers in the field are great for this. Read the books, learn new things, but only pursue the things that you like, not what you think you should read! Seemed to me that your interest and enthusiasm are the main criteria for an offer, so make sure you love the subject and show this when you talk about it (which will come naturally!)