What content do I need to know for a Oxford Chemistry interview and how to prepare?

For the chemistry, they care more about how good your problem-solving skills are than how much you know. For maths however, I'd say you want to have done all the calculus in both the AS and A2 parts of the course. I'd also recommend making sure your algebra and logarithms are solid as these could easily come up in a chemistry interview.

For the chemistry, they care more about how good your problem-solving skills are than how much you know. For maths however, I'd say you want to have done all the calculus in both the AS and A2 parts of the course. I'd also recommend making sure your algebra and logarithms are solid as these could easily come up in a chemistry interview.

so should I focus on pure? because I haven't done much for stats or mechanics. I'm doing maths in one year so I haven't covered very much content which is why I'm so stressed about it.
I think for chemistry, I will be better. I'm familiar with most content so I just need a refresher and some practice with harder questions (like olympiads I suppose) but I'm so worried about maths.

Pure is generally more relevant to chemistry, so I would say it is definitely what you should focus on. I'd probably cherry pick some questions off the old C3 and C4 papers on physics and maths tutor as they have some nice integration and differentiation questions which are quite reminiscent of the maths questions I got in some of my own Oxford interviews.
Olympiad papers are something I would really recommend for Oxford interview prep as they test your critical thinking skills and how good you are at applying what knowledge you have to an unfamiliar situation. Essentially it's a test of the same skills an Oxford interview is assessing (bar articulating your thoughts out loud, of course). I'd suggest having chemistry conversations with people who know a lot less about chemistry than you. It's one of the best ways of ensuring you know how to put an explanation into words and to do so clearly.

Then I guess I will try and do all of AS with a particular focus on pure and then integration and differentiation year 2. I might skip some of stats or mechanics for year 1? I feel like that probably wouldn't come up but I'll try get familiar. As for chemistry, I'll refresh the as and a2 then do as many olympiad questions I can. Hopefully I can bore my mum by explaining it.
I'm assuming C3/C4 is A Level maths not further maths?

C3 and C4 were the old A2 pure papers from the ordinary A level maths syllabus. They assess mostly the same content, though the vectors questions on C4 assess something called the scalar product (which was moved to further maths) and there may be questions asking you about the volume of a solid generated by rotating a curve about the axes (which are called volumes of revolution - these were also moved to further maths). Otherwise, they just assess stuff from normal maths. I think it's very unlikely stats and mechanics will come up, so I probably wouldn't worry about them. They give everyone they interview same questions and because some people they apply do IAL maths, there is no guarantee they do stats or mechanics as the course structure is completely different.

Oh, thank you. I'll try those papers. That's such a relief. I think I can manage to get a good grip on pure but stats might have been too much. Do you think I should do olympiad questions for maths too or are there other resources that are better for maths?

I wouldn't do maths olympiad questions (or even SMC / JMC maths) as what they assess is completely different to the maths you can reasonably be expected to be assessed on in an Oxford Chemistry interview. You are much better off sticking to AS/A level for maths imo.

ah okay. I'll shop around for some harder maths questions or look at a few past papers there then. That's a relief.I think I have an idea of what I'll spend this week doing! Do you have general advice around interview prep or how to appear to be a great candidate?

For the chemistry, they care more about how good your problem-solving skills are than how much you know. For maths however, I'd say you want to have done all the calculus in both the AS and A2 parts of the course. I'd also recommend making sure your algebra and logarithms are solid as these could easily come up in a chemistry interview.

I haven't finished year 2 intergration and wouldn't have by the time my interview comes around. Do you think it is in my best interest to try and learn the remainder of the year 2 content for calculus (I've finished differentiation) or should I just be honest in the interview if it comes up and tell them I haven't learnt it

I would probably do a combination of both. Read up on as much of the year 2 integration as you can do and if anything you don’t get through comes up (or if you did get through it and didn’t understand it), just say you haven’t done it yet and they’ll maybe give you some of the results you need or find a different question