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.

History

The Queen's (2017)

One of my interviews was based on my written work, which my tutor used as a starting point to delve…

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History

Somerville (2015)

My first interview was about my personal statement and the ideas that I had spoken about there; wha…

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Classics

Wadham (2018)

In one interview I was given a piece of Latin to translate (I'm a 1b student). Dont worry about not…

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Computer Science and Philosophy

Merton (2018)

None of my interviews brought up personal statements - they said they were only assessing academic …

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English

Gonville & Caius (2019)

My first interview took the form of a general chat, where my answers generally led the topics explo…

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Biomedical Sciences

Oriel (2018)

In most of my interviews, I was shown some diagram or graph that I was asked to explain - they usua…

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