Interview Insights

Here's our database of first-hand student interview experiences. You can also watch students talk about other aspects of university in our student videos.

Classics

Merton (2014)

All my interviews had 2 interviewers. My first interview was on ancient history and philosophy. No …

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Chemistry

St Catherine's (2018)

There were no personal questions whatsoever; each interview consisted of 10 minutes with each of th…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Merton (2018)

In politics and economics we were given a problem sheet 20 minutes before the interview, and the in…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Pembroke (2017)

In my first interview, I was asked why I was interested in PPE and philosophy in particular. There …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Catherine's (2016)

Economics Interview We talked first about a book from my personal statement (an introductory questi…

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Engineering

Murray Edwards (2014)

Physics interview was 50% based on content I'd already covered, but stretching the knowledge I alre…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.