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.

Medicine

Trinity (2018)

In my first interview (at Trinity) we talked about why I wanted to be a doctor, the ethics of a doc…

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Medicine

Merton (2017)

My first interview was quite stressful, I didn’t know what to expect and didn’t have a clue what th…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Lady Margaret Hall (2018)

In my first interview, I had a 30 minute pre-reading which was on a scientific article about an exp…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

The Queen's (2018)

We discussed the pre-reading provided, and some pro and con arguments surrounding it, as well as in…

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Philosophy and Modern Languages

Somerville (2018)

For French: I was asked to analyse an English poem, read it aloud, and discuss context and themes 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.