As a general point it's worth remembering you don't have to actually solve the problems you're given in the interview to get a place. It's much more about seeing how students react to new ideas. Or using ideas learnt at A Level (etc) in a new way. If a student gets an answer right straight away they tend to be given a different question. The interviews are about us finding out how people think.... not perfect answers.
That's utter rubbish. Firstly, your MAT will not reflect what questions you get in the interview, how you perform with the 'basic' questions determines the rest of the interview. This is so that when they look at your MAT score and your interview score (out of 9) they're completely independent of one another. Secondly, Oxford hasn't rejected anyone with a 90+ score in the last ~5 years, apparently
I see. Thanks for the clarification. I apologize for my misleading example. Hmmm there are so many 'interview stories' by my friends but it seems many are not quite real.
My MAT went ok. I came out of the exam thinking I could get 65 but after seeing the answers people on TSR put down probably 57-61.
Wow - surprised you got a STEP offer, I thought/hoped a 'borderline' score would be lower than that considering the low average this year! Imperial are harsh, especially for specifying STEP 2/3. Congrats though
Wow - surprised you got a STEP offer, I thought/hoped a 'borderline' score would be lower than that considering the low average this year! Imperial are harsh, especially for specifying STEP 2/3. Congrats though
Thanks
I think I might have been given a STEP offer because my AS results weren't brilliant. I'm interested to see what kind of offers Imperial will give to everyone else. My maths teacher wasn't impressed with the specifying of STEP 2/3 either and said a 2 in any STEP is understandable if I was borderline but not in 2/3.
Also as the mean score this year was lower, is that due to an increase in applications, difficulty of paper, or due to a different reason? Will the cut off mark for interview be lower than normal or roughly unchanged?
I opened my email this morning to discover an invite for interview from Jesus College!!! xD It was sent yesterday a bit after midday, Mathematics applicant; for those who want to know. Anyone else heard back from Jesus?
I think I might have been given a STEP offer because my AS results weren't brilliant. I'm interested to see what kind of offers Imperial will give to everyone else. My maths teacher wasn't impressed with the specifying of STEP 2/3 either and said a 2 in any STEP is understandable if I was borderline but not in 2/3.
I had the same offer last year, although they gave you an offer a lot quicker than they did with me last year (February I think) and I didn't declare STEP either. I've yet to hear a more generous offer for Maths at Imperial at the moment but I think they can afford to dish out those kind of offers and still be confident that they will meet their quotas.