Anyone has an interview at Trinity HAll?

OP

fishpaste

rotf. korner lectures 1A A+G this year. if the thread starter really does get him he's going to have the best interview EVER

hey u guys... u r golden ducks for me... so whats ur suggestions.. yeh true.. i have dr korner and tokieda lol... so what do they like or dont like? pls reply!

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I spent most of my interview with Körner wondering if the chair I was sitting on was going to fall apart so I'm afraid I can't be a great help in that respect. Most of the questions he asked were GCSE level knowledge but much harder, so make sure you're comfortable with those sorts of questions. To be honest, my interview with him went really badly and I still got in, so I wouldn't worry too much about it: they seem to place more emphasis on STEP than interviews (be prepared for a 1/1 offer!).

Dr. Tokeida is new this year so I wasn't interviewed by him, but one thing he does seem obsessed in supervisions with is the drawing of pictures to help solve problems. Do this and you should be fine. He's very friendly and may give you tea and cookies!

Hope this helps. Prof. Körner's office is on my staircase so I may bump into you on the 1st.

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Mop

I spent most of my interview with Körner wondering if the chair I was sitting on was going to fall apart so I'm afraid I can't be a great help in that respect. Most of the questions he asked were GCSE level knowledge but much harder, so make sure you're comfortable with those sorts of questions. To be honest, my interview with him went really badly and I still got in, so I wouldn't worry too much about it: they seem to place more emphasis on STEP than interviews (be prepared for a 1/1 offer!).

Dr. Tokeida is new this year so I wasn't interviewed by him, but one thing he does seem obsessed in supervisions with is the drawing of pictures to help solve problems. Do this and you should be fine. He's very friendly and may give you tea and cookies!

Hope this helps. Prof. Körner's office is on my staircase so I may bump into you on the 1st.

lol whats ur name so when im there i can say im looking for a mate...
for korners interview which is my first one at 8.45, does he ask any qs like why maths or why do u think we shuld choose u over some any other guy...or he only asks gcse(weird not even a level) qs? does he chat most of the time? what type of guy is he?

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ziya_the_king

lol whats ur name so when im there i can say im looking for a mate...
for korners interview which is my first one at 8.45, does he ask any qs like why maths or why do u think we shuld choose u over some any other guy...or he only asks gcse(weird not even a level) qs? does he chat most of the time? what type of guy is he?

and what did u get for STEP... i been looking at step 1 papers and they seem so difficult... how do u revise for them?... its nothing like a level maths /f.maths.. and they want 1 from step 2 n step 3 jesus christ... help me!

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ziya_the_king

lol whats ur name so when im there i can say im looking for a mate...
for korners interview which is my first one at 8.45, does he ask any qs like why maths or why do u think we shuld choose u over some any other guy...or he only asks gcse(weird not even a level) qs? does he chat most of the time? what type of guy is he?

I don't really want to give away too much about the interview as it would be unfair on everyone else, but I was only asked one general, non-technical question (How have you used maths or physics in everyday life? or something like that if I remember correctly) and the rest of the interview was of the form question, answer, question, answer etc. (By the way, I said the questions can mostly be answered with GCSE knowledge, not that they were GCSE level. They were more 'How do you think?' than 'What do you know?').
I imagine you'll have another interview (with Dr. Bampos possibly?) where all the standard 'Why maths?' rubbish will be done.

As for what type of guy he is, this picture: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/site2002/Photos/People/korner_tw.jpg may help.

EDIT: For STEP, if you get an offer and you go to a school tha tis unable to provide help with it, you'll probably be invited to a STEP course in Cambridge. I've no idea how useful this is as I didn't go, but they do take into consideration how different STEP is to A-Level.

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miffmeister

I've got an interview for Modern and Medieval Languages on 3rd December. It's a lot sooner than I expected, but hey, guess then it'll be over and done with. I'm going to be interviewed by Dr Haywood and Mr Fleming, if that means anything to anyone!

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whatever you do don't wear a suit, Korner is known for absolutely hating them, in his own words "if you wear a suit to interview then i'll think you're an idiot" (as i've been told by some of the mathmos here) but they all seem to think hes cool so u shouldnt be too scared!

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miffmeister

I've got an interview for Modern and Medieval Languages on 3rd December. It's a lot sooner than I expected, but hey, guess then it'll be over and done with. I'm going to be interviewed by Dr Haywood and Mr Fleming, if that means anything to anyone!

I had Mr Fleming for one of my natsci interviews last year and to be honest found him very hard to work out, he seemed to just sit there making notes on me while the other person asked questions which was slightly strange, but hes not too bad, but i'm assuming a language interview will be very different to mine so i can't really help much!

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I wore one :rolleyes:

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Mop

I wore one :rolleyes:

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u at tit hall? if so what year?

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devilschild

u at tit hall? if so what year?

Yes, first. I feel rather pathetic conducting a conversation on the internet with someone who's presuamably only about 50m away from me
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Mop

Yes, first. I feel rather pathetic conducting a conversation on the internet with someone who's presuamably only about 50m away from me
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LOL thats quite random- whats ur name, presumably i've met you at some point! im a first year natsci

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miffmeister

I had Mr Fleming for one of my natsci interviews last year

I thought they were meant to give you an Arts specialist for Arts subjects and a Science one for Science subjects etc... so seems a bit odd that he's doing both?

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OP

anyone knows kumar?

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miffmeister

I thought they were meant to give you an Arts specialist for Arts subjects and a Science one for Science subjects etc... so seems a bit odd that he's doing both?

yeah but I had Dr. Hollfelder in that interview as well and he seemed to ask most of the questions and Bampos for the other so i guess its not that strange having one non scientist interviewing me (not that I know which subject Dr. Fleming does)

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