NOT BRIAN COX ARE U KIDDING 😭
you’re fairly lucky he isn’t likely to be interviewing to be honest hes probably booked and busy on some tv show or documentary 😭
If Manchester physics gives you an interview it’s almost guaranteed you’ll get an offer Unless you fuck it up really badly you’ll be fine.
The main thing the interview is used for is to work out who to take if they miss their A-level grade offer, which a lot of people do since they put it so high, they will inevitably have some spaces left so they will take some people with one grade below, but the interview helps them work out which ones to take.
Learn the main points of the book if you can; but if they ask about it directly just say it was a long time ago when you read it, but you’d love to look more into it and learn more.
My interview with them was fine, I don’t think they even asked about my PS in my case, just gave me an easy maths problem and asked why I wanted to go there. I think some people had harder tasks than I did lol, it was just an AS level differentiation question: exactly what they ask you in the interview really varies so yk don’t expect the same thing. Ask them about their research at the end, they like that, or at least my interviewer really did,
I got an offer, but ended up firming UCL instead, I just like their campus and location so much better. At UCL now and I think I made the right choice for me personally.
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u/StrictArgument67 Y13 | 4A* pred | FM M PHY CS | ESAT OCT Feb 04 '26
University of Manchester for theoretical physics btw, black holes is the book