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A Cambridge interview is built on the supervision, a small-group discussion led by a specialist that you would have throughout the degree, and the interview is a sample of what that would be like with you in it. Most applicants are told the answer they gave was fine and are then asked something harder, which is the format working as intended.
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Read the Oxbridge interview guideCambridge asks applicants to complete My Cambridge Application a week or so after the UCAS deadline (it replaced the Supplementary Application Questionnaire), and many courses require an admissions test: the TMUA for Maths, Computer Science and Economics, the ESAT for Engineering, Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering and Veterinary Medicine, the UCAT for Medicine, the LNAT for Law.
For Maths, STEP usually comes later still, as a condition of the offer rather than before it.
Strong candidates a college cannot take are placed in a pool and may be interviewed again by another college in January. It is a mechanism for taking more good applicants, not a consolation round, and being pooled is a positive signal.
Being given a problem beyond your course, asked to think aloud, and pushed, with hints when you stall and follow-ups when you succeed. The feedback afterwards is about the route rather than the answer: where you went quiet, where you took the hint, where you abandoned a good idea too early.
Mostly in December, with pool interviews in January. Some overseas interviews are held earlier.
That your college thought well of your application but did not have a place, so it has been passed to other colleges to consider. It is not a rejection, but most pooled applicants do not end up with an offer, so treat it as a second chance rather than a likely one.
TMUA for Maths, Computer Science and Economics; ESAT for Engineering, Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering and Veterinary Medicine; UCAT for Medicine; LNAT for Law. Check the current course page, as the list moves.
After an offer rather than before it. Most Cambridge Maths offers make STEP 2 and 3 a condition, sat in June.
Most applicants have one or two, lasting between 35 minutes and an hour in total, and some have more. They are typically subject-specific, with academics who teach the course.
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