Veterinary Medicine @ Girton, Cambridge in 2022

Interview format

Natural Sciences Admissions Assessment (NSAA), 2x interviews

Interview content

Worked through a clinical case

Best preparation

Practice answering questions verbally

Test preparation

NSAA and BMAT practice papers

Final thoughts

Talk through your thoughts, and remember you're not expected to know everything

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.

Interview Format

Test taken: Natural Sciences Admissions Assessment (NSAA)
Number of interviews: 2
Time between interviews: 20 minutes
Length of interviews: 20-30 minutes
Online interview: Yes

What happened in your interview? How did you feel?

Worked through a clinical case

How did you prepare for your interviews?

2 mock interviews - one online and one in person, practiced answering questions with friends and family. 

If you took a test, how did you prepare?

Practice papers from NSAA and BMAT

What advice would you give to future applicants?

Talk through your thoughts, even if you don't know the exact answer they're looking for, the interviewers will appreciate your thought process and won't expect you to know everything.