Arts-Humanities Admissions Assessment (AHAA); 2x interviews
Interview 1: discussing inferences from a sources; Interview 2: general conversation
Read books on historiography
Practise papers under timed conditions
Don't let anyone discourage you!
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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: Arts-Humanities Admissions Assessment (AHAA)
Number of interviews: 2
Time between interviews: 1 hour
Length of interviews: 30 minutes
Online interview: No
My source interview essentially required me to answer questions about what I inferred from the source, as well as its relevance.
The second interview was a general interview. My advice for both is to simply be yourself. If you aren’t yourself, and you don’t get in, you’ll always wonder that if you were yourself, may you have gotten in?
I read tons of books regarding historiography, good books for that are: 'What is History' and 'In Defence of History.' I reread my personal statement and researched further into the dates I mentioned for additional information I could mention in the interview. I also did
I took tons of practise papers under timed conditions. This helped me get a good understanding of timing, what pace to go at for each question and the best technique to answering. For example, the test I did, the AHAA requires you to retrieve information. I found that the best way for me to do this was to read the extract, read the question, re-read the necessary lines and then answer.
Do it. Do it. Do it. Do not be discouraged by anything, aim for the stars. Try not to take too much advice off of people who haven’t experienced, first hand, Oxbridge interviews. All they do is fear monger, assume and induce anxiety!