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.

Biology

St John's (2017)

In my first interview I was firstly asked to back up a comparison and claim that I had made between…

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Modern Languages

Jesus (2015)

In one interview we discussed an English poem and a German prose text that I had been given time to…

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Biochemistry

Merton (2018)

Both interviewers asked me about why I wanted to study Biochemistry. From this they asked me a ques…

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Medicine

Brasenose (2017)

I was given a graph/table and asked to talk about what I saw. This then developed into a discussion…

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Human Sciences

Magdalen (2017)

In my first interview they asked me some basic evolution questions they knew I’d have studied at A-…

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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.