2x 30 min interviews, 3 hrs apart
Poem with questions, given beforehand; personal statement
Read Ovid
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Read classical texts; do some interview preparation, little and often.
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
Skype interview: No
Time between each interview: 3 hours
Length of interviews: 30 minutes each
I was given a poem with questions on it before the interview. I thought about the questions before the interview. The atmosphere was fine. It was probing but the
I read a bit of Ovid every day, using a Loeb edition to check for the answer.
I recommend reading classical texts, both in the original and in translation.
The best thing I did was trying to do some form of interview work every day. It doesn’t need to be strenuous or time-consuming, but
I got much better at the language, but the main benefit I got from my work was confidence.