2x interviews
Interview 1: questions on pre-reading and wider discussion about geography Interview 2: questions on personal statement and data questions
Preparing to answer questions on pre-reading article
Show your passion for the subject and talk through your thought process out loud
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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: None
Number of interviews: 2
Time between interviews: 2-3 hours
Length of interviews: 30 mins
Online interview: Yes
I’m my first interview, I was asked about a selected reading I had read pre-interview. And also discussed some wider questions about geography.
In my second interview, I was asked multiple questions on my personal statement as well and multiple questions on graphs and tables presenting data relevant to physical geography.
I had a reading that we were given and knew we would have questions on in the interview. I prepared by reading the article and annotating it with my thoughts on it
It’s important to show how much you like the subject and also that you're comfortable with getting answers wrong. This is because the interviews I had were effectively short versions of the
Also, for a lot of my answers when I didn’t know the topic very well I made sure to talk through my thought process out loud so my interviewers could see what I was thinking rather than sitting in silence to think.