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.

English

Peterhouse (2022)

My first interview was based on some pre-reading I was given before the interview, my English A lev…

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Medicine

The Queen's (2017)

Each interview was slightly different, but were all based on chatting about questions, and never ar…

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Medicine

St Hugh's (2018)

My interviews had very little personal statement discussion, quite a few general questions with a f…

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Biochemistry

Brasenose (2018)

Both my interviews involved a number of problem sheets (some with pictures of biological processes …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Corpus Christi (2018)

In my Politics interview, they asked me stuff about my personal statement, then a few follow up que…

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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.