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.

Chemistry

St Anne's (2017)

I had three interviews at my college - one for each of the different branches of chemistry. During …

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Biomedical Sciences

St Hugh's (2016)

All interviews were similar, with some questions about the personal statement first. Then there wer…

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Physics

Somerville (2018)

All 3 interviews were entirely technical, from the minute I got in there the questions were all pro…

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Modern Languages

The Queen's (2017)

My first interview began with a discussion about several books mentioned on my personal statement b…

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Modern Languages and Linguistics

Worcester (2017)

German 1: I was given 15 minutes to look over a poem (with no dictionary). When I went into the int…

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Chemistry

New (2017)

All my interviews were pretty much just problem sheets (just went through questions as the tutor p…

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