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.

Law

Corpus Christi (2016)

My first and second interviews were each conducted by a different pair of tutors, so the format rem…

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Medicine

The Queen's (2017)

In preparing for my medicine interview, I explored every avenue I could think of; keeping up to dat…

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History

The Queen's (2015)

Interview 1 (Ancient history): I was asked to read two pieces of evidence, which we then discussed …

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Medicine

Christ Church (2017)

We covered topics in my personal statement, but in far greater depth. I had to analyse graphs, and …

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Materials Science

Mansfield (2016)

One of my interviews started with being asked about my EPQ, and in the other we discussed an articl…

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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.