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.

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Emmanuel (2018)

In the first interview I was shown lots of data : graphs, videos, puzzles and was asked to work thr…

Read more

Engineering

Pembroke (2017)

Both interviews focused on maths and physics questions. For the first interview, I was given a 30 m…

Read more

Maths

Jesus (2018)

Both interviews jumped straight into questions: some on probability, some on geometry and proofs an…

Read more

Architecture

Christ's (2017)

We spoke a lot about things I wrote in my personal statement, and about my academic journey, as wel…

Read more

Natural Sciences (Physical)

Pembroke (2018)

In each of my interviews, I was only asked two questions although each of them had multiple, relati…

Read more

Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

The first interview was a general language aptitude test with two language tutors, although they we…

Read more

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