2x interviews (30 mins); 1x test (1hr)
1st interview: topics relevant to subject; 2nd interview: pre-interview extract & scenarios
Mock Interview
Be teachable - there's no need to 'know it all'
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.
3 parts, 1 hr
First was a more general interview with one interviewer asking questions relevant to the subject, second was based on a piece of statute given to me an hour before the first interview and asked to apply it to scenarios by 2 interviewers
Interview 1 - topics discussed: Criminal sentencing, medicine, positive discrimination. I felt good at the time as it was drawing on interests in my personal statement but I made lots of mistakes and the
Interview 2 was based around occupiers liability (something I’d never considered before) and I felt that it went terribly. I was give 3 scenarios to analyse and in the discussion with the fellows I didn’t even finish the first one. I never thought I’d be back at Cambridge after that.
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It’s important to remember that you’re being interviewed by the people who will be teaching you if you’re successful. They don’t want to see someone who knows it all and isn’t willing to learn. Show them that you can be taught and are willing to think about what they say and respond to it.