Oxford MFE interview

Hi,
Got a shortlist for Oxford MFE but am absolutely clueless on what would be in the interview..

any pointers will be really appreciated..
anything on whether the interview will be technical or mainly SOP aspirations based?

Regards

Reply 1

passthesaltplease

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You should PM ZeroCool, he did it. Got an offer for MBA though. I'm sure he'd tell u. There was also a thread a while back before the last round of interviews where a whole bunch of existing MFE students were talking about the course. You should search for it. It was in the PG forum.

Good Luck!

Reply 2

flyingkolours

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you'll find most of the stuff you want on http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=184958

btw, don't worry too much about the interview...just make sure you can discuss everything (deep) that's on your resume and sop..

Reply 3

zerocool

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as far as i know, the interviews differ a lot from each other!
I attended one at said and met a lot of people who also had their interview on that day!

it seems like the content of the interview depends very much upon how they assess your background - if they think you have a sufficient maths background, they don't seem to ask many technical questions

but if they are not sure about your maths background, they'll fire technical questions at you during the whole interview - statistics, calculus, analytical geometry,... - (which was the case for me...and i didn't have a clue what they were talking about...so i ended up with an offer for the MBA instead - the interviewer talked me into switching applications from MFE to MBA, because he liked my profile)

i don't think you can make a general statement about the content of the interviews...it really depends on your own background, on how they see you and on your interviewer

I have also talked to a couple of current MFE students at the Open Day...they told me that the statement in the prospectus concerning the maths background (it says you don't need one) is pretty much bull****; it is possible to catch up, but that requires lots & lots & lots of work! but that's just what they told me...might work different for other people. Nevertheless, during my interview i told the interviewer that I'll catch up on the maths stuff by working really hard - he just gave me a smile (says more than 1000 words i think)

Reply 4

Steve4

Original post by zerocool

as far as i know, the interviews differ a lot from each other!
I attended one at said and met a lot of people who also had their interview on that day!

it seems like the content of the interview depends very much upon how they assess your background - if they think you have a sufficient maths background, they don't seem to ask many technical questions

but if they are not sure about your maths background, they'll fire technical questions at you during the whole interview - statistics, calculus, analytical geometry,... - (which was the case for me...and i didn't have a clue what they were talking about...so i ended up with an offer for the MBA instead - the interviewer talked me into switching applications from MFE to MBA, because he liked my profile)

i don't think you can make a general statement about the content of the interviews...it really depends on your own background, on how they see you and on your interviewer

I have also talked to a couple of current MFE students at the Open Day...they told me that the statement in the prospectus concerning the maths background (it says you don't need one) is pretty much bull****; it is possible to catch up, but that requires lots & lots & lots of work! but that's just what they told me...might work different for other people. Nevertheless, during my interview i told the interviewer that I'll catch up on the maths stuff by working really hard - he just gave me a smile (says more than 1000 words i think)

Hi zerocool,

I have applied to the MFE oxford. I have my interview coming up in a few days. Could you tell me what questions did they ask you in statistics or analytical geometry?

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