Official: University of Nottingham A108 2024 Entry Applicant thread

What are your stats? Selection for interview is based solely on the number of points. In your case I think the best thing to do is contact them if you're certain your points add up to 114. Before that though, I would advise you do the following things.

1) Double check you meet the contextual criteria set out by the university and that your points do add up to 114 under their selection criteria.
2) Make sure your predicted/achieved grades don't meet the normal OR contextual A100 entry requirement.
3) Double check you meet the minimum GCSE grade requirements for english, maths and science.

It is also possible that those with lower scores than you who were invited to interview may have been given one via interview fast track as Nottingham has an outreach programme which guarantees an interview.

Send them an enquiry explaining the situation as it is entirely possible a mistake could have been made.

My stats were 2620 B1 88887766D* for GCSEs and I fit the contextual criteria, I couldn’t apply for the A100 course as I achieved BBB last year.

If the above information is true, then it can only be as a result of 2 situations:

1 - Cutoff was very high this year for non-outreach applicants
2 - They made a mistake

It can only be these two outcomes as they explicitly say that selection for interview is based solely on the points scored. In any event it would be worthwhile dropping them an enquiry and explaining the situation to confirm whether that is the case.

I don’t think it’s the cut off as I’ve seen people with lower points secure interviews.

I don’t think it’s the cut off as I’ve seen people with lower points secure interviews.

do you meet one of the following: live in an area of low progression to university (only use the postcode searcher they provide on the notts website), completed one of their outreach programmes, have refugee status, was in care.

if you meet the 5 year course requirement you're not eligible, and cant apply for both this and the 5 year course.

you must have a min of grade 6 in maths, English lang and science. Must not be a GCSE Resit.

Must not be an A-Level resit.

hi I just wanted to ask a few questions to clear up some misconception I have regarding the interview structure
Does the interview consist of 8 stations or 6? I've seen both number thrown around and its getting confusing.
Do we receive 1 min prep time before each station or did that only apply when the stations where "in person"?
Regarding "Ice breaker questions" I believe they are not marked but what does it entail is it just "how are you?" type of questions?

Thank you for any responses and I wish everyone the best.

Don’t worry about icebreaker they can ask you any question so it’s not easy to predict. It has no relevance in terms of marks so just answer it truthfully.

You have six stations in total. They will give you the question by which you will then have 1 minute to think about it before you then have 5 minutes to answer it. They may cut you off within the 5 minutes to ask follow up questions.

Just a quick question for interview, if you get asked a topic that you’ve never heard of, can I assume you can ask the interviewer before answering for a clarification?

yes

Guys I got my interview on the 10th next week. Any advice??? Kinda interested to see how they do it

is it alright for me to wear my AirPods during the interview? coz my laptops mic is a bit crap

As long as they can hear you then I think there’s no reason it shouldn’t be ok.
That may be something worth checking in one of the pre-interview briefing sessions they do.

How did we all find the interview?

Generally ok tbf
Around 4/6 questions I found good and around 2 stations I thought I performed ok in.