2x 20-30 min interviews, 1 day apart
Interview 1: general discussion, personal statement, evolution; Interview 2: questions on topics and objects
Practise talking about your subject.
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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: 20-30 minutes each
In my 1st interview there were 3 interviewers. The first asked me general questions related to biology/evolution and some of the stuff mentioned in my personal statement, the 2nd interviewer went step-by-step through some statistics questions, and the third asked more questions on evolution.
In my 2nd interview, there were 2 interviewers. The first interviewer asked lots of questions about the topics we study (background knowledge not really necessary), and the second gave us an object to discuss and deduce information about.
I did practice papers and practice questions, for the essays. I also read the news and planned some possible essays.
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I did lots of background pre-reading, not all of it was necessary but it was good to get a deeper understanding of the subject.
Practising talking in an interview-type situation definitely helped, more so than subject specific things as the interviews aren't testing your background knowledge.
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