Submitted by Hypatia on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 10:00
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Hi all - good luck to all of you who will be going to an interview in the next week or two.
You can find out a bit more about interviews at Cambridge here.
You can watch a (slightly old now) mock interview from Emmanuel.
There is information about Oxford maths interviews (including a video of a curve sketching question) here.
Couple of tips
It is fine to ask questions! If the interviewer uses a term you don't understand etc. It is also fine to say things like "I think I need to use the expansion for ln(x) but cannot remember what it is". It is also fine to ask the interviewers to repeat a question.
Keep talking: it is helpful for the interviewers if you talk through what you are thinking, rather than sketching a graph in silence, or even worse just sitting in silence.
You should find some of the questions hard: they want to see how you think and what your problem solving skills are like. They cannot tell this from giving you questions you already know how to do.
Good luck (again!)