Harris Westminster Interview

Hello, I have just about passed the entrance exams for Harris Westminster Sixth Form (by 1 mark) and have managed to get an interview on February 14th- my interview subject is biology. I was just wondering if anyone has any advice on how to prepare for the interview and what HWSF expect, especially considering that I am currently tier 4 in terms priority and I'm pretty sure I need to do really well on my interview to get into hswf since I barely passed the entrance exam and the overall score will be my entrance exam score + interview score.
Any advice or help would be really appreciated!

Hey! I think that they prioritize interviews over entrance exam marks, as I remember reading the policy, and it said something about 1 entrance exam mark being 4 interview marks. Can't remember it exactly though.

Yes you're right, I didn't notice that on the email before, thank you, that makes me feel a bit more confident

Hey, I am not really sure where this comes from but in previous years the interview was out of 160.
I haven’t found credible sources that say otherwise.
Part 1 -> 7 minutes, a topic you have prepared to discuss with the interviewer. Must be outside of the GCSE/A level Curriculum.
Part 2 -> 8 minutes, you will get a question.
For maths I have heard it is similar to a UKMT Intermediate end-of-paper question.
For English, it's usually a difficult poem or extract you must analyse in front of your interviewer.
You are supposed to “think outloud”, they want to figure out your thought process and get an understanding on how teachable you are.
For the topic, most of my friends have chosen uni-level stuff to attempt to wow their interviewer; this is a pattern I have observed in previous successful applicants too.

Outside of A level curriculum?? Are you sure? the topic I've been revising for the interview is A level

"which demonstrates that you enjoy learning beyond the confines of an exam-board specification" - I have interpreted this to mean that but at the same time, I think they are referring to just GCSEs so you should be fine.
Hopefully my research was useful, I spent like 2hrs yesterday sifting through forms
and then calling up friends of friends for advice on the interview. Mostly for myself but I thought I’d share
What is your timeslot btw? I feel so bad for those who have to come in at 8:30am.

Ok that's good then, thank you for your hard work! My interview is at 11am, I was hoping it would be later, but now I'm genuinely so happy with it after finding out other people have it at 8:30 in the morning. What time is your interview? and what subject are you doing?

omgg we have our exams at the same time maybe ill see you lool

Hey! I think that they prioritize interviews over entrance exam marks, as I remember reading the policy, and it said something about 1 entrance exam mark being 4 interview marks. Can't remember it exactly though.

The marks for these will be combined with the exam marks with the weighting 1 (interview marks): 4 (test marks) to get an overall score. This is what it says in the admissions policy, am I bugging or does that mean the test marks are waited more ?

hey so how was the interview??

HORRIBLE. I started rambling in the first stage and i interpreted the source he gave me completely wrong. But i'm just going to try forget about it till the next email comes out. What about you how was it???

The marks for these will be combined with the exam marks with the weighting 1 (interview marks): 4 (test marks) to get an overall score. This is what it says in the admissions policy, am I bugging or does that mean the test marks are waited more ?

HORRIBLE. I started rambling in the first stage and i interpreted the source he gave me completely wrong. But i'm just going to try forget about it till the next email comes out. What about you how was it???

Hello, I have just about passed the entrance exams for Harris Westminster Sixth Form (by 1 mark) and have managed to get an interview on February 14th- my interview subject is biology. I was just wondering if anyone has any advice on how to prepare for the interview and what HWSF expect, especially considering that I am currently tier 4 in terms priority and I'm pretty sure I need to do really well on my interview to get into hswf since I barely passed the entrance exam and the overall score will be my entrance exam score + interview score.
Any advice or help would be really appreciated!