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.

Geography

St John's (2017)

I had one interview for physical geography and another for human geography. In the physical geograp…

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Materials Science

The Queen's (2016)

Over two interviews: They gave me a formed material and asked how it could have been made. I had no…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Worcester (2018)

My first interview was split: half politics and half economics. The economics half I was very nervo…

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Modern Languages

Christ Church (2017)

In both my language interviews, I was asked to analyse a poem in English that I had had half an hou…

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History

Worcester (2016)

Basically I just had a lot of fun because it was a top opportunity to talk to some really cool acad…

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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.