UK economics tutorial admission interview practice
Economic reasoning, simple models, evidence and trade-offs in unfamiliar policy and market questions. Practise the 5 questions admissions panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the programme
A UK economics tutorial admission interview examines how you reason about choices, incentives and evidence. Interviewers may begin with an everyday market or policy and then alter an assumption, looking for a clear model, thoughtful evaluation and awareness of competing effects.
How to prepare
- Practise identifying incentives, constraints and opportunity costs in everyday situations.
- Review basic ideas about supply, demand, market failure and simple macroeconomic relationships.
- For each model, state its assumptions and consider what it leaves out.
- Read current economic analysis and separate descriptive claims from value judgements.
- Review any economic issue or book mentioned in your personal statement.
Common mistakes
- Giving a firm policy verdict before explaining the mechanism behind it.
- Treating correlation between two outcomes as proof that one caused the other.
- Drawing a diagram without stating what moves or stays fixed.
- Discussing only the average effect and overlooking distributional consequences.
What to expect
A real admissions interview
5 questions the way admissions panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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