PhD The Early Process, Application and Interview advice

Thanks for advice!

I want to submit my application asap and not wait till the deadline, because I think early PhD applications are more favorable. So, I'm worried because my referees are just procrastinating.

Hello,

I need an advice again. I needed 2 references for my PhD application. I first contacted my tutor. He agreed to write it me, but he still didn't. Then I also asked the lecturer who was a supervisor of my dissertation during my masters degree. And now he replied to me that I need first to contact my tutor for the reference. Because it is according university policy. What does it mean? Why supervisors can't write the references?
What about other my lecturers of my masters course? What if they say that I only can contact my tutor?

I had given them three weeks time turns out its not enough. It better you notify them a month before and keep sending them reminder emails every week.

I had given them three weeks time turns out its not enough. It better you notify them a month before and keep sending them reminder emails every week.

What do you think is better? To send them reminders by email or to use resend notification email which is at online application system of the universities?

Hello again,

Today, I've contacted the admission department of one university and they have told me that
an automatic reference request is sent to my referee's email after I submit my application.
So, it means I can send my application by just filling in the contact details of my referees.
And then after submitting it, track if they wrote the references.

So, now, I'm a little bit unsure about another uni, which requires to have full application with references before submitting. There, I can track whether my referees started, completed my application before submission.
But, what if, I can also submit my application just by providing the details of my referees?
Even though they clearly indicated that they send automatic notification once I provide the details of my referees. Not after I submit my application.
I know that I need to contact this uni for further clarification. Basically, I just don't know whether my referees are simply busy to write me the references or they haven't received these online notifications from the unis. My referees haven't responded back.

Hello fellow PhD applicants!! It's getting quite exciting now.. has anyone else got interviews yet? I have my first one next Moday

I have one on thursday. Excited ... Will they asking in depth what we studied in undergrad and master's ?

Oooh which subject? Hope it goes well for you
I hope they're going to ask more about my undegrad lab projects and my 4th year project etc, and more general conversation questions... but I'm scared they will ask me to solve problems and things!

Hello fellow PhD applicants!! It's getting quite exciting now.. has anyone else got interviews yet? I have my first one next Moday

I had one in December and one in January. They honestly weren't too bad!

Where is your interview?

Liverpool John Moore's for Astrophysics, yay!
Do you mind me asking what kind of questions they focussed on for yours? Was it more an exam style thing, or a discussion?
Ooh and have you applied to Edinburgh again at all? I've applied to go there too, so hopefully I might get an interview.

Hello fellow PhD applicants!! It's getting quite exciting now.. has anyone else got interviews yet? I have my first one next Moday

How did your interview go ?

It was alright thanks They just asked kind of weird questions, it wasn't really the format I was expecting. Had a chat with a lot of potential supervisors too about their various projects, so that was good. The only thing is they don't make offers for a particular project.. you decide only after you arrive.. sort of off-putting. Also they won't be able to offer the co-tutelle/joint PhD route like they led me to believe.
How are your applications going? Did it go well on Thursday?