2x 30 min interviews, 1 day apart
French: Read, translated, and answered questions on French text; History: discussion of period I chose
Past paper questions
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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: 1 day
Length of interviews: about 30 minutes each
For French, I was asked to read, translate and answer comprehension-based questions on a French text. I was also briefly asked a question relating to my personal statement, as was the case in my History interview, which was otherwise just an analytical discussion of an historical period of my choosing.
I was nervous at first, but quickly relaxed into it in spite of a few blips in the French interview. Both interviews were open and accommodating—this was especially so with History, which felt more like an informal conversation than an interrogation of any sort.
I surveyed and discussed past paper questions.
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