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.

Modern Languages

St John's (2018)

For my beginners' language interview for my college (I had an 'intermediate' language level since I…

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Biochemistry

Corpus Christi (2016)

1st interview: I sat down around a large table with two young tutors. Both were friendly and welcom…

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English Language and Literature

St Anne's (2018)

I was given a poem, which I annotated and then talked about with interviewers. I talked about what …

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English Language and Literature

Somerville (2018)

We went through my personal statement and the texts. I chose to express why I wanted to take Englis…

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Music

Lincoln (2016)

I was given an extract from a book to read; I was also given two pieces of music to analyse and com…

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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.