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

King's (2017)

We discussed books I had read that were mentioned in my reference, current affairs in medicine, gen…

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History

Gonville & Caius (2018)

All of my interviews at their core had a set of visual or data-based historical sources. I had to s…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

St John's (2017)

I had a test upon arrival. It had more abstract physics questions than I had at A-level.The first i…

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Maths

Gonville & Caius (2018)

First interview: Got to choose one of two topics for my interview to be based on. This was nice, as…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Sidney Sussex (2017)

In my tutorial interview I was asked some general questions about my extracurricular activities as …

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Computer Science

Queens' (2018)

In the first half of my first interview (Computer Science) they asked me questions about my persona…

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