Official Imperial Applicants Thread (2012 Entry)

i seriously thought arianex was going to stop us lot from talking about interviews. but seems she doesn't care. unlike the mother of this thread of course.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH Computing interview tomorrow! I think I might be getting a bit too stressed about it...

Also, do most people who are invited to interview get offers?

We were told that 80% of people interviewed were given offers (Chemistry.)
Of course, this varies form group to group.

Good Luck My friend also has a Computing interview tomorrow.

"Doesn't care"? I'd advise you to not make offhand-remarks like that. Yes, you can talk about interviews; I'm not going to be some megalomaniac tyrant. But not in-depth.
If I catch anyone talking about specific Qs... -sharpens cleaver-

The reason I'm fine with "was your interview more xx-based or yy-based"/"scope-based" questions is because the answer varies for EVERYONE. Quoting verbatim, "if you think about it, that's totally left to the discretion of your interviewer" - it's up to them what sort of stuff they want to ask you.

Specific questions, however, like "draw the graph of such-and-such" -- NO. OFF LIMITS.

In a nutshell: YOU SHOULD BE ACING THESE INTERVIEWS BASED ON YOUR OWN EFFORT AND SKILL/KNOWLEDGE, NOT BECAUSE SOMEONE ALREADY TOLD YOU THE ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC Qs.
The reason nikita_atikin says "no interview discussion full stop" is because some of you don't know how to judge what's okay and what's not, so it's easier to say "totally no interview discussion". It's not us who created these rules; it's a TSR thing.

It's much the same as TSR's own rules about Edexcel exam discussions on the forum (because the exams are taken internationally)...even stuff like "that was hard" could end up being a giveaway, so it's much better to have totally no exam discussion until after a certain timeframe (to ensure that everyone around the world had finished taking their exams.)

urmm.. as a junior to you, i didn't mean to make u so mad. i mean ur getting quite defensive about it. but i get ur point.

Got an offer of AAA from Imperial this morning for Chemistry yay!

Got my conditional from IC in chemistry (A In Maths)!!

Nice! Well done.

"Doesn't care"? I'd advise you to not make offhand-remarks like that. Yes, you can talk about interviews; I'm not going to be some megalomaniac tyrant. But not in-depth.
If I catch anyone talking about specific Qs... -sharpens cleaver-

The reason I'm fine with "was your interview more xx-based or yy-based"/"scope-based" questions is because the answer varies for EVERYONE. Quoting verbatim, "if you think about it, that's totally left to the discretion of your interviewer" - it's up to them what sort of stuff they want to ask you.

Specific questions, however, like "draw the graph of such-and-such" -- NO. OFF LIMITS.

In a nutshell: YOU SHOULD BE ACING THESE INTERVIEWS BASED ON YOUR OWN EFFORT AND SKILL/KNOWLEDGE, NOT BECAUSE SOMEONE ALREADY TOLD YOU THE ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC Qs.
The reason nikita_atikin says "no interview discussion full stop" is because some of you don't know how to judge what's okay and what's not, so it's easier to say "totally no interview discussion". It's not us who created these rules; it's a TSR thing.

It's much the same as TSR's own rules about Edexcel exam discussions on the forum (because the exams are taken internationally)...even stuff like "that was hard" could end up being a giveaway, so it's much better to have totally no exam discussion until after a certain timeframe (to ensure that everyone around the world had finished taking their exams.)

Oh man I got my Chemistry invterview tomorrow and I am ridiculously scared. I already had quite a few mocks and real interviews it's just when I get a question I really don't know the answer for that I struggle Anyway good luck to anyone going tomorrow and well done for everyone who got offers so far !