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.

Materials Science

St Catherine's (2017)

My interviews consisted of two things: these were personal statement based questions, and physics a…

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Medicine

Christ Church (2018)

At both colleges I had two interviews: an academic one and a fitness to practice one. In the academ…

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English Language and Literature

Balliol (2015)

I had two interviews, which were split into a UCAS interview (personal statement) and a poetry inte…

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Linguistics

Peterhouse (2018)

My interview was initially focussed on my personal statement and the ideas I put forward in it. The…

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Mathematics and Statistics

St Catherine's (2018)

In my 5 interviews, I was only asked 3 questions that weren’t actual maths problems, so it was very…

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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.