What sort of questions will I be asked at interview?

Most applicants will have two interviews. One will be conducted by the Tutor for your chosen subject, and will be of a more general nature. You will also have at least one subject-specific interview conducted by at least one of the Teaching Fellows in that subject. Here the interviewer(s) will not be as interested in your capacity to recall facts from your courses, as in your ability to think on your feet and reason coherently and intelligently. In the course of the interviews you will have the opportunity to ask questions of you own; for example concerning the University course or life in College. We will try to make the occasion relatively informal and hope that when it is all over you will be able to look back on your two interviews as discussions where you were given every encouragement to demonstrate your ability, your interests and your motivation towards your chosen subject. The important thing to remember is that your interviewers want you to do well and will do their very best to help you get the most out of your interviews.