My interview was in December. I had been given instructions by the porterof how to get to the waiting area. This area was a room where all the candidates for the day waited. There were two current students there who kept the atmosphere calm. The college was well signposted.

There were two 25 minute interviews, each with two interviewers. They were both simple question-answer interviews. Between interviews I went back to the waiting area. This break lasted around 45 minutes.

The topics discussed included A level biology and chemistry, discussion of the topics included on my personal statement and the ethics involved in veterinary practice. I felt that a lot of the questions were of a higher level than I was expecting; they seemed to be the sort you might ask of a fully qualified vet.

Questions included discusions of symptoms you might expect in certain illnesses (based on topics taught in A levels) and the issues surrounding affordability of treatments. The interviews were fast paced, and later questions were rushed due to time constraints, but the interviewers understood this. I felt I did alright at the first interview, but terribly at the second.

My sixth form ran a mock interview, which I found useful as it allowed me to prepared for the more generic questions and it gave me an idea what sort of more specific questions to expect. Before the interview I read over all the texts I had mentioned in my personal statement. This was to refresh my mind about them, and it also helped to be able to bring extra detail to the answers I gave at the interview.

Interviews are very easy to worry about, but are really just the interviewers trying to see how you think and whether or not they'd like to teach you. An interview can have gone well even if you think it has gone badly.