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.

Medicine

Somerville (2018)

My interviews were very science based. Little was asked on the personal statement - it was more bio…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

University (2016)

Politics - I was given a page of reading an hour before the interview. The interview involved discu…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hilda's (2016)

Interview 1 (Philosophy & Economics): This started with a few questions about my background and…

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Biochemistry

Oriel (2018)

At my first interview we had 15 minutes beforehand to read an article and write a paragraph summary…

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History

Somerville (2018)

My first interview was half on my personal statement and half on the written work I had sent in. Th…

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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.