☆ Cambridge MML Applicants - 2019 ☆

Yay same combo! What have you been doing for wider reading?

Congratulations!!! I'm so nervous too ahaha

Honestly I have no idea but they probably don't expect a whole essay - I'll probably do like a sentence for an intro just so I know what I'm going to talk about and then I doubt I'll have time for a conclusion.

The English part is a bit cryptic, I think what you said is correct?

Have an interview at Trinity, French and Russian. So nervous!!!

Same college, same language combination here is yours on the 5th? How have you been preparing?

Yep, mine is on the 5th. Rereading books on my PS. Have a friend who is at Trinity, she told me not to worry too much about the written part. Her questions were mainly on her PS. You?

Guess we might see each other then! That's good to hear, I'm definitely better at speaking than writing. I've been doing some of the specimen papers and making sure I know my PS well. I found out one of my interviewers (Dr Khalfa) wrote a book about someone quite closely related to an area I discussed on my PS sooo I'm trying to look over everything related to that area because I don't want to be caught out

Yep, mine is on the 5th. Rereading books on my PS. Have a friend who is at Trinity, she told me not to worry too much about the written part. Her questions were mainly on her PS. You?

Mine is on the 5th also!

which college?

Congrats! Which languages?

Me too, I speak better than write. My first interview is Fr, then the test and then Russian. What about you? How have you been preparing for Rus? I put two short stories by Chekhov on my PS and watched two films. (The Rus. interviewer is interested in old films, I watched none).

My order is the same (fr, test, ru)! I put some Russian poetry on my PS which linked to some of the French poetry I'd read, and also wrote about some aspects of Russian (mostly 19th and 20th century) history and visual art that I found interesting. I hope I don't get asked about film; film analysis is the one aspect of the course that I actively dislike (I hate it at A-level and can't see myself liking it later) and I want to do as little as possible

I'm super anxious about discussing a poem/text during the interview! What kind of things would I need to mention? And for the ab. initio language, do I get a pre-reading?

I'm super anxious about discussing a poem/text during the interview! What kind of things would I need to mention? And for the ab. initio language, do I get a pre-reading?

But usually your college should let you know in advance if you have to do any pre-reading.

For ab initio language you might get a text or a poem in English.