An academic interview is not really anything like a job interview first of all. What it's like will depend on exactly what you are applying to as well.

The best advice I can give is just revise your A-level courses in relevant areas and maybe do some practice questions/essays to get you in that kinda mood. However don't waste time trying to quote your entire textbook word for word - that works fine for A-level exams but your interviewers will be looking for someone who can actually pick up and use new concepts quickly, so don't be surprised when they introduce you to something completely new.

All my interviews were purely academic but some people also have more general interviews, can't really help too much with those I'm afraid.

Obviously make sure everything you have told them in your application is true (i.e you have at least skimmed those journals you said you always read) and don't try too hard to impress by claiming to understand things you really don't - no you do not have a complete understanding of quantum mechanics or string theory, don't try and say you do.

Also don't fret if you think an interview has gone badly. The point is to test you and you're definitely not expected to know everything they ask straight away. One of my interviews was absolutely awful but it was just as bad for everyone else doing my degree. The guy who came out saying it was easy? Never seen him again in my life.

Final advice, look up your interviewers if you can and in particular their research areas. Might make a personal connection easier and also avoids saying stupid things about areas they know like the back of their hand.

Good luck mate.

>>5072
Thanks for that. I avoided committing myself to any specific text so I hopefully won't get a curveball. Unfortunately there's no way of finding out the interviewer, so I'll just try and stick to saying things I'm sure about.

>>5073
Don't worry, they'll accept you. You don't have to impress even, just come across as an okay person who wants to be there. That's it.

Fucking bricking it. Think I did okay, tripped up on one of the academic questions but quickly realised my error. They say I'll have my offer by Friday at 6. I'm clicking refresh on track like a demwented ferret.

I should note I have got an offer, and I intend to take it. Any lads at Manchester here?

>>5077
Yeah mate, what halls are you looking at applying for?
When do you even apply for halls? Is it when you accept the offer or after exams or what?

>>5079
Applications are open so I assume whenever. If I don't get anything else on UCAS in a couple of weeks I'll probably put my offer in.

Thinking of either City because it's 30 seconds away from the Sackville Street building which is where I'll be studying, or Victoria Park because I'm not a #lad who goes #clubbing every night, and I've heard from friends already there that VP isn't like that.

Any advice?

>>5080
Are you doing engineering?

Anyway, it depends what you're into really.
I'm biased because I lived in Fallowfield, but from what I've heard and seen Victoria & City are both very international and very dull. If you're an introverted person they'd be fine I suppose.

You don't have to be some lager lout who loves going to shite cheese nights every night to live in Fallowfield. I lived in Oak House because it was the cheapest possible, and it wasn't that mental or anything. Obviously there were pissed spastics wandering round shouting fairly often but it wasn't like constant screeching and the people in my flat were fairly wholesome.

If you're English and normal I'd probably go for one of the Fallowfield halls. Don't live in the tower (though to be fair everyone I know that did liked it).

>>5112

ExManclad here.

Fallowfield was and always will be full of cunts. If in Manchester - avoid. There used to be what we called a 'cunt run'. Year 1 Victoria, year 2 Fallowfield, Year 3 Didsbury. Like a 1 mile hop each year to total cuntery in Didsbury.

BTW how much is rent in student prisons these days? It was 75 quid per week at least ten years ago in the 'Student Village' behind the Oxford Road Tesco drug den. £100 pw now?

Fuck me. ITZ

>>5112
Aye.
Since I'm poor the government is going to give me what the underclasses might call "mad bank". As such, I've applied for Weston hall in City at £125pw (what I'm paying now, so it makes no difference).

>>5113
£~90 for the cheapest, £~135 for the most expensive.

>>5114
P.S. Since I am doing engineering, the equvalent fare in bus fares up from Fallowfield would probably make it almost as expensive to live there.

>>5113
Withington's worse.
Did you live in Rusholme?

Student rents are a rip though. Cheapest UoM halls are around £90 and they're shite. Houses aren't as bad with 300pcm being a fair upper limit

>>5116

Lived in Whalley Range blud. Gunpoint rage and crackwhizz panic most days, not as bad as the £30pw rent and avoiding the landlord after 2 months arrears though.

Moved on to Levenslum for a couple of years then 5yrs in ChorltonSmugfuckerland. Back home to proper Yorkshire.

From the posh lasses I ended up going back to their place in student accom and shagging them senseless, to the £100pw rent nowadays, at least I gave them right good enjoyable cost free fuck.

Oldlad now. Still enough whirr in my spoon for those home counties girls that can't swear proper, though.

>>5117
:s

>>5115
Nearest place for food is a tesco express though. Prices are high in those. And it'd be pretty miraculous to spend that much on buses.
But the main saving you'll make it on LEARNING since it's a lot more difficult to get yourself out of bed when you've a 40 minute journey ahead.
Enjoy it

>>5118
My current uni is in London, and so the food prices will be the same if not lower, and if I really need to I get bus/bike it to a big tesco somewhere.

The learning thing was, if I'm being honest, the reason why I picked it. I live roughly the same distance from lectures now as I would do in Weston, and it's so nice to be able to get up half an hour before a lecture and still be there early.

>>5113

I live in Fallowfield, and have for three years, and heartily second this. It's an awful student ghetto (but fucking lovely in summer when nobody's here). Feel profoundly sorry for the actual residents, cunts used to come past my old flat shouting their heads off every night to the point the guy on the ground floor would often be seen taking the baby round someone else's at 4am. Horrible.

>>5275
That report makes me glad I've applied for the city campus then.

Some clouds have appeared on the horizon over easter -- revision for a module to be examined on Wednesday has gona pretty badly given the lecture notes are almost incomprehensible and my personal notes aren't much help. There aren't any past papers either, so I'm just gonna have to wing it.

>>5275

3 years in Fallowfield?

You get less for death by reckless driving, lad. Fallowfield is a complete shithole full of spazzers.

Dear Mr Assad - please stop dropping your melting people bombs on Syria and build rockets to dump your shit on Fallowfield.

I got offered Wright Robinson which is the huge brutalist/modernist thing with the weird shape on top. It's cheap enough I guess.

>>5113

Scot here.

I lived on the Edge of Burnage and Fallowfield

Am I also a cunt?