Test taken: National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT)
Number of interviews: 1
Length of interviews: 35 minutes
Online interview: Yes

It felt very relaxed and my interviewer even cracked a few jokes throughout my interview! There were a lot of questions about books and courses I had mentioned on my personal statement, asking what I had learned from them and what they were about. Then I was asked to re-argue the essay topic from my LNAT, and debate it with the interviewer. To end, he asked some theoretical questions about how new laws should be made to regulate new technologies, which we debated again to try to make it fit every scenario. Finally, he asked about the most recent book I read, even if it wasn’t about law.

With hindsight, I can say that while they were interested in my ability to argue and think through questions logically, many of the questions actually were about my interests as a person and trying to scope out if I would fit in the intense academic environment.

I reread the books I mentioned in my personal statement so I could talk about them. Then I found some lists of past interview questions online, and I talked through them all with someone else from my sixth form who was also applying for law so we could think out loud and bounce ideas off each other. I also talked through questions with a student who used to go to my sixth form and had been successful in her application to study law to get her insight. Talking through the questions definitely was very useful, and I would recommend finding someone willing to do that with you even if they have no experience - if you can explain your ideas clearly to them, then you can explain them to an interviewer!

I started by looking at the early past papers on the LNAT website, trying to answer the questions then working through the answer to try to figure out the approach they wanted to the questions and watched YouTube videos, where graduated law students talked through how they would answer the questions which helped me nail the thought process. Then I did more recent past papers under timed conditions until I eventually did the online mock test on the website. For the essay I did only timed practices using the list of topics on the LNAT website, because I found the timing is the hardest part of the essay.

I would advise applicants to relax! The interviewers want you to do well, plus the interviews are designed to see if you would be suitable for supervision-based learning, so just be yourself because that’s who you’d be if you came here! I was not expecting to be asked so many questions about my personal statement, or any questions about my LNAT essay, so make sure you know everything you have talked about throughout your whole application.

If I did it again, all I would change is I would develop my arguments further in the debates, because overall I felt my interview was a good representation of my skills and abilities. Finally, remember to be proud of yourself for getting an interview at one of the best universities in the world because it can be so easy to lose sight of the incredible opportunity.