Questions, answered.

You talk. Choose Oxford or Cambridge, start a session, and an interviewer asks you a medicine question out loud. You answer out loud, the same way you would in a real interview. When the conversation ends, you get a written report you can read again and use to plan what to practise next.

Real Oxbridge interviews are mostly spoken: you have to think aloud, follow up on hints, and explain your reasoning without a script. MediSpeak lets you rehearse that pressure in a full mock, then use the report to see what was thin or rushed. You get more from both the conversation and the feedback than from reading alone — so you walk into the actual interview better prepared, not just better informed.

MediSpeak is for people applying to study medicine at Oxford or Cambridge. You do not need to have an offer yet; many students practise while they are still preparing their application. If you are applying to other UK medical schools, we are not live there yet — you can join the wider UK medicine waitlist and we will email you when practice opens for your schools.

No. The questions were written for practice by a Cambridge medical student. Colleges do not publish the interview you are about to sit, and MediSpeak is not part of Oxford, Cambridge, or UCAS. A session is a realistic mock conversation, not a copy of a particular college’s unpublished paper.

Yes. The interview runs in your browser and listens while you speak. Use a quiet room and a device you are comfortable talking to for ten minutes or so. Headphones with a built-in mic are fine. We do not keep audio recordings; we keep a transcript of what was said so you can review it in your report.

You pick a university. The session then gives you a topic you have not already done: something scientific, something ethical, or something about you. The interviewer asks the questions in order. If you stall, you can ask for a hint. The aim is spoken reasoning under light pressure, not reciting a script.

Pick the university you are applying to (or the one you want to focus on first). The tone and question style are written for that path. If you are applying to both, you can practise for each separately; the app tracks what you have already covered so you are not repeating the same mock.

No. You can start without one. If you add yours in the app, the interviewer can ask you about a line in it. Use your own statement, and only if you can talk about it without reading it back. Never upload someone else’s words or material you cannot defend aloud.

Yes. During a session you can photograph written working on your phone. We read the photo and the interviewer can refer to what you actually drew or wrote. That mirrors how many real interviews use a whiteboard or paper — your explanation still has to be spoken.

That is normal in a real interview too. Say what you do know, state your assumptions, and reason step by step. The interviewer may nudge you. MediSpeak is built to reward clear thinking aloud, not perfect recall on the first try.

It shows where the answer went thin: a step you skipped, a hint you needed, a claim you could not unpack. Use it to decide what to revisit — a graph habit, a ethics structure, or a personal example you could make more specific. It will not tell you whether you will get an offer; only the universities decide that.

No. Offers depend on your whole application, interviews at college, and selection rules that change each year. MediSpeak helps you practise speaking and thinking in the style Oxbridge interviews use. It does not replace school advice, official university pages, or honest preparation on your own material.

Create an account on the app with email or Google. You choose Oxford or Cambridge during onboarding, then you can start a session from your dashboard. If you are under 18, we suggest showing our privacy notice to a parent or guardian as well.

New accounts include free speaking time so you can try a full mock before buying a plan. Exact allowances are shown when you sign up and in the app. Paid plans add more interview minutes when you need regular practice closer to interview season.

Start with the free speaking time on a new account — enough for a real mock so you can see if it helps. If you need more minutes without paying upfront, use the referral link in the app: friends who sign up with it get bonus minutes on their first plan, and you earn extra minutes when they buy. We would love to give unlimited practice away, but live voice interviews, AI, and running the service have real operating costs; referrals let motivated students help each other while we keep the product sustainable.

You can open the app on a phone, but we recommend a laptop or desktop for the main interview so the microphone and screen are easier to manage. The phone flow is especially useful for photographing written working during a session.

Your voice is streamed to run the live interview; we do not store audio recordings. We store the transcript, scores, and report for your account. A personal statement is optional and only used to ask you follow-up questions — we do not share it with universities. Full details are in the privacy notice in the app.

Only if you opt in when you sign up or in Settings. You can turn marketing emails off at any time. Joining the wider UK medicine waitlist on this site is separate: that uses its own consent checkbox and is only for news about practice outside Oxford and Cambridge.