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1.    Interview Preparation Day

Oxford and Cambridge highlight the importance of preparing for your interview. Our Interview Preparation Day has been designed in association with a former Oxbridge tutor to help you to prepare effectively for your interview.

The Interview Preparation Day has been carefully crafted to enable candidates to maximise their potential at university interviews. The Preparation Day includes:

• A talk on what to expect at your university interview, delivered by a former Oxbridge tutor. This investigates the criteria that tutors and dons are looking for from candidates
• A session on the types of questions you may be asked at your interview, and helps you to think about how you might answer these questions
• A workshop on how to handle a set text you may be given before an interview, or activity-based questions you may be asked in an interview. This offers strategies for approaching such exercises at your interview
• A workshop on how to handle nerves you may feel at interview and boost your confidence
• The opportunity to have a mini-practice interview with one of our recent Oxbridge graduate interviewers. This will help you to put into practice what you have learnt on the Interview Preparation Day. The personalised feedback is specifically designed to give you action points to help you to continue to prepare effectively for your interviews

2.    One-to-One Preparation Session

Our One-to-One Preparation Sessions have been designed in association with a former Oxbridge tutor and provide a focused opportunity to gain individualised, one-to-one support in your university interview preparation. 

The hour-and-a-quarter session is run by one of our experienced Oxbridge educated senior management team. The session covers:

• The motivations behind your application to Oxford or Cambridge. This looks into the questions that are often asked at the beginning of an Oxbridge interview, and helps you to think about how you might best answer these questions
• An analysis of the skills that Oxford and Cambridge look for, and what skills you need to develop. You will be given a news item related to your subject and will be asked challenging questions based on this. This will be an opportunity to demonstrate your analytical skills, independent thought, capacity to make a case and defend a point of view, to think on your feet and respond to challenges - criteria which tutors and dons look for
• How you come across at interview - your personality, body language and presentation
• A personalised action plan for you to put into practice before your real interview 

You will be given oral feedback throughout the session and will have the opportunity to discuss questions you have on the interview process. You will be sent an in-depth written feedback form shortly after the preparation session which our pupils often choose to review further with their parents and teachers. We will be on hand for the fortnight after the session to answer any further questions you have by email or phone.

As part of our philosophy to provide bespoke support for all the pupils we support we have a limited number of One-to-One Preparation Sessions:

Please click here to book a One-to-One Preparation Session.

Many pupils find it helpful to have a practice interview after their preparation sessions. A practice interview with one of interviewers who studied your subject at Oxford or Cambridge helps pupils to put into practice what they have learnt in their preparation session. For more information on this please see our Packages.

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