Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Admissions Assessment (PBSAA); 2x interviews
Interview 1: biology questions; Interview 2: experimental methods, discussion of a source
Reread books mentioned on personal statement
Used Critical Thinking GCSE papers
Show the interviewers that you're teachable and eager to learn
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.
Test taken:
Number of interviews: 2
Time between interviews: 2 hours
Length of interviews: 20-30 mins
Online interview: No
In the first interview, I got asked a lot of biology questions. I hadn't taken Alevel biology or revised any GCSE bio content before the interview (you probably should!) so I was a bit stuck. Thankfully, the interviewer gave me hints and helped me through it. What they want to see is that you have good problem solving skills, not necessarily that you know the answer.
The second interview was in a really cozy room. They gave me a hypothesis and asked me how I would conduct an experiment to test it, so brush up on your experimental methods. I was given a source too before the interview and I highlighted it and annotated the sides with stuff I thought I could say. Then they asked me questions on it in the interview.
I asked one of my teachers to do a
Loads of past papers. The first part is similar to the old Critical Thinking GCSE too, so I learned some content from that.
My advice would be to pretend that you're in a