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.

Land Economy

Girton (2018)

In the first interview, I mainly talked about my personal statement, in particular my interests wit…

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Philosophy

Emmanuel (2017)

In my first interview, we mostly discussed things from my personal statement. I had mentioned I was…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Girton (2017)

In the first interview, they gave me some material in French and ten minutes to read it. Then they …

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Engineering

Jesus (2017)

In the first interview, I was asked one basic mechanics question I could do, then a question on phy…

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Chemical Engineering

Jesus (2018)

First interview was all about working through the problems given and my thought process through the…

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English

Sidney Sussex (2018)

In the first interview I was given five minutes to look over a poem, which we then discussed. I was…

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