2x interviews
IWTSE website; Bebop to the Boolean Boogie book; speaking to current student
Don't think about the interview when it's over
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.
2 interviews - one technical and one about likes/dislikes. One with the 2 engineering Directors of Studies and one with 2 fellows.
In the first interview started about my motivations for engineering and about what I liked and disliked about it. The interview was with the 2
In the second interview I has to simplify a resistor network and we talked about the current it would carry / its power output. The interview was a lot less relaxed and took place in a supervision room in Christ's with a couple of non-engineering fellows (one was a chemical engineering fellow, the other a mathematician). Both
i-want-to-study-engineering.org helped massively with preparing for potential interview questions. I read a book called Bebop to the Boolean Boogie, which was what convinced me that I actually wanted to do the course and also gave me something to write about in my personal statement.
On top of this,
I came out of my interview absolutely convinced that I was never going to need to come back to Cambridge - the offer was a complete surprise! On the other hand, I've got friends that came out thinking that it had gone perfectly and didn't get offers. Everybody's perception of how it went is so subjective that it really isn't worth thinking about!