<p>Mainly little ‘games’ like company “x” can produce for “y” and launches a campaign for “z” while company “a” can produce for less but has to built a factory first and so on, I don’t remember it completely but it was about the question whether it is profitable for “a” to enter into the market and if under which circumstances. Mostly games where the obvious answer is the wrong one. They do not expect a perfect answer immediately but they want to see the ability of constructing arguments etc.</p>
<p>Regarding A level Economics: I didn’t do A-Levels at all (international student as well) I in fact never did economics at school at all. I guess they considered that when choosing questions but all the others that did economics or business studies said that their interviews weren’t based on anything they’d actually learned in class. That means you are more than perfectly well prepared.</p>
<p>The written exam isn’t that hard, it has a math part and one based on E&M, there is a sample at <a href=“http://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/interviews/tests/EM.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/interviews/tests/EM.pdf</a> , I think this year’s one was a little longer and more theoretical, but it was still ok.</p>
<p>The opening questions are pretty predictable, “why do you want to study xy?” “Why Oxford?”, “which of your qualities would make you a good manager?” For internationals also ‘why UK?’. What comes afterwards isn’t really predictable and every interview is slightly different in terms of lengths, concept and questions asked. As long as you can build an argument and think logically you probably do well.</p>