2x interviews (each with 2 academics); 1st interview with 10mins pre-reading.
1st interview: discussion of article and conversation about sociology as a subject, class and social issues and personal experience; 2nd interview: personal statement and <issueSaq>SAQ</issueSaq> personal statement.
<issueMockInt>Mock interview</issueMockInt>; reading; keeping up to date with the news.
Don't worry about others waiting to interview, what you're wearing or your accent; you never know how the interview has gone; it doesn't matter if you get things wrong.
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.
My interview was in the first week of December, it was only the second time I had ever been to Cambridge and I had never been to Robinson College before. We had to wait in the
In my first interview, we discussed the article they had given me. They asked me to summarise the first paragraph in a sentence. We talked about whether the categorisation of sociology is important. We then talked about class and social issues, I talked about my experiences in my hometown which the interviewers seemed really interested by. The interview lasted around 20 mins.
My second interview was more about my personal statement and my
Good luck! Be yourself and don't let other people in the interview waiting room put you off. The interviewers don't care about what you