Theology test; 3x interviews
Interview 1: personal statement; Interview 2: discussion of philosophers; Interview 3: analysing a picture
Re-read books mentioned on personal statement
Practice test
Prepare to talk about your personal statement in detail
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Test taken: Theology test
Number of interviews: 3
Time between interviews: 2 hours
Length of interviews: 30 minutes
Online interview: No
I was so nervous and kept calling Socrates 'Aristotle' and having other word mix ups, but the interviewers were really kind and it was around quite enjoyable. We talked a lot about the stuff on my personal statement, like fundamentalism and extremism, and I was given a picture to analyse in one of the interviews too.
Read and reread the books on my personal statement, they asked me a lot about these so that was definitely the most important preparation.
The practice test available online.
Make sure you know your personal statement, they went quite deep into it for me and even asked me to define one of the words I'd used. I don't think you can really anticipate much else of what they're going to talk about because the subject is so broad, and they will throw in a few random questions. At the end of the day they're really nice people and so just enjoy the discussion!