Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Admissions Assessment; 1x interview.
Subject-related problems, personal questions ("why psychology?", past volunteering experience).
Reread your personal statement and be able to talk about it; psych biology revision; thinking of questions to ask the interviewer.
Make educated guesses even if you don't know the answer; verbalise your thought process. Enjoy the interview!
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: 1
Length of interview: About 40 minutes.
Online interview: No
A problem sheet about designing a psychological experiment. There were questions about neurons, memory storage, ethics, and also questions about my volunteer experiences and why I wanted to study psychology.
I read through my personal statement a couple times to remember and recap what I wrote about, since they’ll ask you questions about that, and made sure I had stuff to say about my relevant experiences and the things I expressed interest in.
I also read through my psych biology notes.
I thought of questions I would ask because this is a place to demonstrate interest and passion.
I also
I did the practice test on the website and read through some of the essay questions to get an idea of the types and thought about how I might structure it since time is limited. I also strategically picked which papers I would do (you get an option of math/reading) so play to your strengths!!
Be yourself, and even if you don’t know the answer, just keep guessing because the questions are meant to be hard.
Just ask questions and sort of talk aloud to show them what you’re thinking throughout the process!
And honestly just enjoy it cause when else are you gonna be able to sit with these world class professors and have an academic discussion like this? :))