2 x interview
Interview 1: Anatomy; Interview 2: Book from personal statement
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Practice interviews
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Test taken: none
Number of interviews: 2
Skype interview: no
Time between interviews: a few hours
Length of interviews: unsure
There were a variety of question types. I was given two plant specimens and asked to talk about them with prompts.
In the first interview this involved working out aspects of the sample's anatomy and in the second a semi-quantitative graph-sketching problem was given based on a symbiotic relationship between the plant and an animal.I was nervous at first but the interviewers were quite calming; there were two in each room.
I was also asked to summarise a book picked from my personal statement, and asked questions based on the formula of drugs.
It is worth pointing out that I got a lot of the questions wrong but quoted mostly correct theory in my reasoning and so this was fine.
No problem sheets etc were given, all verbal.
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