UK history tutorial admission interview practice
Source evaluation, historical argument, causation and careful reasoning from incomplete evidence. 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 history tutorial admission interview tests how you construct and revise arguments from limited evidence. The discussion may use an unfamiliar source or a topic from your application, with attention to provenance, causation, comparison and the limits of what can be known.
How to prepare
- Practise analysing unfamiliar written and visual sources before reaching a conclusion.
- For familiar events, separate immediate triggers from longer-term conditions.
- Review the historical topics and reading named in your personal statement.
- Reread any submitted history essay and identify its assumptions and strongest counterargument.
- Practise qualifying broad claims by asking whose experience and which period they describe.
Common mistakes
- Summarising a source without asking who produced it and for what purpose.
- Listing several causes without judging their relationship or importance.
- Using hindsight to assume that people knew how events would unfold.
- Holding to a neat argument after new evidence has complicated it.
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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