Tringineering prep

how are people here preparing for the pre interview exam at trinity? i seem lost... how are you preparing for the the whole interview?

I'm not applying for engineering but if and when I get an offer for my course, I plan to watch ALL of the practice interview videos that the colleges have put out on YouTube. Also, there are several people who have been through what we are going through at the moment so we can just learn about their experiences and try to do as much practice of what they tend to ask (which in my case tends to be Maths questions. Sidenote: I am applying for CS).

Congratulations on the invite! Still waiting on mine

oh thats odd i thought everyone had heard! did you check for spam maybe? sending you good wishes, i'm sure it's on the way!!

thanks for the wishes 🤞

Just got rejected from Gonville and Caius for CS....I knew it was coming after that admissions test tbh. ☹️

so sorry to hear that CS is ruthless this year - honestly not seen many interview invites at all this year

Yeah it's really brutal. I think it's got to do with the fact that I had a poor TMUA performance in addition to there being several strong international applicants for CS at the college I applied to ☹️ so things just didn't work in my favour. I deduced my college based on lowest mean TMUA score for offer holders out of all of the Cambridge colleges, aesthetic of the college when I went to visit on Open Day (I only visited the ones that were in the town centre) and then the admissions statistics on the website. Caius ticked all of these boxes for me but unfortunately, it seems I'm not a good enough fit for Cambridge.

Caius seems popular this year too it was my other choice but my predictions are too weak so i applied to trin which i believe puts more emphasis on engaa

Busy helping my son prepare for his Trinity Eng interview early next week. Do you know whether calculators are permitted (basic/scientific/graphing) for the Preparation Paper?

That's my suspicion too.
Incidentally although the CG50 is expensive, it really helps at GCSE further maths and A level ;-)

how are people here preparing for the pre interview exam at trinity? i seem lost... how are you preparing for the the whole interview?

Oh I completely agree...I'm atrocious at graph drawing stuff. But at this level, they don't allow you to use that calculator. My friend's sister got into Economics at Warwick and she isn't allowed to use the CG50 calculator during the course so she just gave it to my friend.

Given that pure Economics is quite Mathsy, one would assume the same for all of the other Maths related disciplines so I don't think they will allow calculators for this reason.

We haven't had anyone hear back yet for Engineering at my school for Cambridge (though there are 4 people applying to 4 different colleges) - only Economics and Computer Science so far.

I got my rejection on Wednesday for CS at Caius and so did someone else for Economics at Trinity. On Friday, we got one person with an interview invite for Economics at Clare but nothing else on the Cambridge front.