My interview was in early December. At the porter's lodge, I collected some reading material which I then had half an hour to read and annotate. I then went to my first interview, which was physical Geography. Straight after, I had my human Geography interview in which we discussed the reading material and other related topics. I think both of my interviews lasted around 15 minutes? There were two interviewers in each of my interviews - one fellow and one PhD student in each. Both of my interviews were discussion-based, rather than test-based - the only test I did was the pre-interview assessment in October.

For my physical geography interview, the questions I was asked mainly stuck to topics I has studied in school, including looking at different maps/images.

For my human geography interview, we discussed the reading material and then other related topics like globalisation. There were definitely questions I didn't immediately know the answers to (especially for physical!) but the interviewers' prompts were really useful in helping me get to them.

For geography, part of the pre-interview assessment is the Thinking Skills Assessment, and to prepare for this I used a book called 'Think you can Think? Cracking the Thinking Skills Assessment', which had lots of practice papers and mark schemes (not dissimilar to the actual test!) which I found really useful.

I also did all of the practice papers available on the Cambridge website and for the geographical essays, I worked with my teacher - I did the essays in timed conditions and then he would give me feedback (my school wasn't the most knowledgeable about Oxbridge but they were more than willing to help me anyways, which was really nice!). I also had a mock interview with 2 of my geography teachers, which again was really useful.

Although I actually wasn't asked anything about it in the interview, I made sure I was confident on my personal statement and able to justify everything I'd written, and I had kind of pre-prepared answers to more generic questions about why I wanted to do the course etc (which again, I didn't get asked about, but if it helps you feel more prepared it can be nice). Apart from that, I tried to read around the subject a lot and keep up to date with the news.

It's definitely easier said than done but do try not to worry too much about the interviews if you can avoid it - mine were actually much less intimidating and scary than I expected, so I kind of got myself worked up for no reason! Also don't overthink how well you think they went - it's so difficult to tell - and if you have multiple interviews/tests following each other, try and compartmentalise each one so that how you're feeling at the end of the first interview doesn't affect your performance in the second (for example, there was a question I really didn't get at the end of my 1st interview but I just had to move on and focus on the 2nd!)