anyone got interview from cambridge so far?

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no, i sent my SAQ back yesterday! I don't know about other colleges but downing has the interviews dates on its website

I don't know about other colleges but downing has the interviews dates on its website

Right, hypothesis:

There is a test on the day of interview for philosophy applicants. This test is devised by the faculty, and is therefore the same across all colleges. This means that all interviews for philosophy need to be held on the same day, unless a college cannot do this and decides therefore to devise it's own (similarly structured) test. (Last two points courtesy of philosophy DoS at Clare, on an open day a couple of months ago).
Ergo...
If Downing's philosophy interviews are to take place on the 8th of Decemeber, it is highly likely that this will be the provisional date for interviews across the other colleges, too.

...It's at least plausible, right?

ZarathustraX (sick of hearing nothing...)

I would agree with that, yes.

Subject: Natural Sciences, Physical
College: St John's
Date: 25th October, 9:25 AM

Uhmm, BAD.
I'm an international applicant and I chose to be interviewed in Singapore, so we (me and my buddies) were interviewed first. Mine just went plain bad. My interviewer was a Pure Mathematician and knew close to nothing about science and scientific developments. It started off good, with a 5 minute general component, but as he launched into the some differentiation maths question the neurons in my cranium disintegrated at 10^9 neurons/second. I hardly did that question at all, he did about 90% of it. I actually managed to solve the problem later that night, and it was actually pretty easy. We went onto another maths question based on the previous one; much easier this time, although it did take me much longer than I should've. That was about all the time we had; I left the room, bitter and disappointed.

I went in expecting a panel of interviewers and was surprised to see only one interviewer. I went out expecting to be called for a second interview; turns out there isn't one. So yes, BAD perfectly sums up that day (which also happened to be my 17th Birthday). It'll take a friggin' miracle for Cambridge to give me an offer now.

Subject: Natural Sciences, Physical
College: St John's
Date: 25th October, 9:25 AM

Uhmm, BAD.
I'm an international applicant and I chose to be interviewed in Singapore, so we (me and my buddies) were interviewed first. Mine just went plain bad. My interviewer was a Pure Mathematician and knew close to nothing about science and scientific developments. It started off good, with a 5 minute general component, but as he launched into the some differentiation maths question the neurons in my cranium disintegrated at 10^9 neurons/second. I hardly did that question at all, he did about 90% of it. I actually managed to solve the problem later that night, and it was actually pretty easy. We went onto another maths question based on the previous one; much easier this time, although it did take me much longer than I should've. That was about all the time we had; I left the room, bitter and disappointed.

I went in expecting a panel of interviewers and was surprised to see only one interviewer. I went out expecting to be called for a second interview; turns out there isn't one. So yes, BAD perfectly sums up that day (which also happened to be my 17th Birthday). It'll take a friggin' miracle for Cambridge to give me an offer now.

Out of interest is your surname Ng? Reminds me of when I was at Letton Hall and this leader told me to say my surname to everyone as loud as I can. Now imagine what that'd be like! I laughed so much I couldn't do it until ages lol.

And on the point of interviews - until they've rejected you, you still have hope. Don't worry. Hope you get in!

Yes, my surname is Ng. I do get quite a laugh everytime someone pronounces my surname wrong... "Neg", "Ngrrr", "Ngeh". Everyone else around me also gets a laugh, but for a different reason. LOL.

Oh BTW ye Cambridge people. Could you all organise a public protest demanding "Brandon Ng" of Brunei Darussalam, intending to read Chemical Engineering through Natural Sciences, be granted entry into St John's in 2005? Thanks I'll be watching BBC.

Emma gave a timetable of provisional dates for all subjects and for Bio NatSci is between 13th-15th Dec.