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.

Engineering Science

Jesus (2017)

The first interview was focused on maths and physics questions, mostly drawn from material I learne…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Oriel (2016)

Economics We were given a problem sheet about insurance and risk to look at for 30 minutes before t…

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Law

Worcester (2018)

First interview innvolved prereading a statute then a whole interview of discussing the statute. Se…

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Classics

The Queen's (2016)

My first interview (general):Before the interview I was given a passage from the Odyssey in English…

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Music

St Catherine's (2018)

My interviews started off with a general question about why I wanted to study music or about my per…

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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.