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.

English

Jesus (2016)

We were given pre-reading twenty minutes before the interview started. One was a longer piece of pr…

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Engineering

Newnham (2018)

In the interviews, I was asked some problem solving style questions that I had the knowledge from A…

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Economics

Sidney Sussex (2018)

A paper in trade and tariffs with guiding questions was handed to me 1 hour before the interview. I…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Newnham (2017)

My first interview was about my MML post A-level language so we discussed a text in the language (I…

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Education

Homerton (2018)

I had chosen the policy and international development track and my first interview largely revolved…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

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

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