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Interviews and additional admissions tests (October 2018)

Content type

Webinars

Audience

Resource for teachers and their learners

Description

This webinar was delivered at the Advancing Access virtual conference on 16th October 2018.

It was presented by staff from the University of Cambridge, King’s College London and Advancing Access.

This session is divided into two parts. Part one provides an overview of how admissions assessments and interviews are used at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. Part two explores how admissions tests and interviews are used for entry to medicine courses. The medicine courses at King’s College London are used as a case study example.

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