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Hi Sarah, Well, as I said, I thought I'd done pretty badly in the interview, but looking back it wasn't too bad. The day itself was really good. The staff really make you feel at ease. They gave us a short introduction about the course, then we got split into two groups- one group did the maths test and essay first and the other did the group interview.
The maths test was 10 questions, with multiple choice answers. I found it quite hard, (but have always been bad at maths) and ended up guessing a few answers. (On GTTR it says I have an unconditional offer but have to audit my skills using a GCSE maths revision guide- so I think that shows how badly I did on the test. Luckily- and they tell you this on the day- doing badly at that doesn't rule you out, if everything else is good.)
I would suggest mainly revising fractions, ratios and percentages, as most of the questions were on these. For the essay, lots of people brought in drafts and then quickly read through them before writing them out from memory. This never works for me, so I just bullet pointed a few ideas the day before, read through them in the morning, then just wrote what came naturally to me on the day.
The group interview was fine. There were 4 others in mine, and we all introduced ourselves and spoke about our experience working with kids. Then we all picked at random a newspaper article to read and told the group about it in turn. We then had to read it again, making notes, and think of a question to pose to the others about the article. I think the most important thing to do during this is to make sure that you find something to say about each topic, or to expand on someone elses point if they have said the same thing you were thinking of (which happened to me a few times, and I just said that I agreed, and gave examples of what I'd seen in my work experience.) Hope that doesn't sound too confusing- it's actually a really good day, and they all try hard to put you at ease. I was incredibly nervous (hence why I thought I messed up) but you just have to try to relax and talk to as many other applicants as possible during the day, which helped to calm me down and took my mind off it. Good luck, I'm sure you'll do great! :)
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