Will i be disadvantaged when applying to cambridge for Maths

Just don't put it on your application as not all centres provide it anyways.

i mean like, will i even stand a chance at the interview

i mean like, will i even stand a chance at the interview

Have you actually tried entrance-exam style questions? For me, I’m not amazing at the SMC but i can do TMUA and MAT question to a decent standard. This will probably give you a better idea of where you’re really at

I disagree with some of the other sentiments implied. The SMC is quite a different style to the interviews (and STEP and the actual Tripos exams for that matter). You can be a perfectly competent mathematician and succeed at interview even if you didn't excel at the SMC.

There are some example sheets of questions (varying difficulty) and tom bowlers booklet and two months before the interview. So you have some time, but you probably need to put some dedicated effort into it.

I've heard people saying SMC style questions are quite similar to interview questions, especially the puzzle type of questions. Idk who to believe anymore tbh.

Sup, I think you've replied to one of my threads before, arent you at Cambridge right now? I can solve TMUA style questions quite well, how much time a week should i put into preparing for an interview?

With a fair dose of subjectivity ...
Usually the interview consists of two parts, so an "exam" where you try and work through as many questions as possible independently, then an interview where you discuss what you did and ones that you didnt do. For the interview, they will give appropriate hints/suggestions to provide a bit more structure to the question and guide you somewhat. They want to see two things 1) that youre capable of doing step in june and 2) that youre capable of learning/being taught. The interview could consist of questions based on a level maths topics, elementary maths / problem solving and there may be the odd question related to properties of functions say to get you thinking. In the exam, they dont expect you to get anywhere near 100% but neither do they expect you to get close to 0%. Its meant to give you time and the opportunity to think and put some stuf down to discuss in the interview.
So what can you do?
Coming back to your smc bronze. As already noted, you can do well on step/interview without doing that well on smc. However, Im honestly a bit surprised as bronze means you get around 8/25 right. If youre cracking through the above stuff, Id not worry about it. However, if you find it difficult to get started on bowlers questions for instance, it may be worth thinking about problem solving so how you get started, sub values in, guestimate values, simplify problems, ... and hit the odd smc past paper for some rapid fire questions / elementary maths practice.
Just to repeat, they want to do reasonably well in the initial "exam" so partly solving/attempting some questions as well as doing some correctly and this is to get you to put down on paper your ideas which can then be discussed in the interview. They dont expect you to be perfect. Also, theres probably way too much advice here for it all to be correct, so the old adage of "its for giving, not for taking" applies. Do some stuff that practices both harder question (elementary/a level/problem solving) and also practice talking over questions/your ideas/justification with someone.

many thanks for the reply, ur the goat. I understand ur quite surprised, I dont know what happened during the SMC I froze up on so many questions but then I can solve them outside the exam hall, it's weird cuz im usually okay with Exams, idk. Lol im just so stressed with everything