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.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Lincoln (2018)

I had 10 minutes with each tutor. Economics was related to game theory. Philosophy was about the ro…

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Law

The Queen's (2016)

It was a reading comprehension exercise: They gave a legal case or article to read and a list of qu…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Merton (2017)

Economics: I was given a problem sheet before, solved it and then discussed how minor changes to th…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Lincoln (2017)

I had 10 minutes with each tutor. Economics was related to game theory. Philosophy was about the ro…

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History and English

St Catherine's (2018)

English: I was asked about books we studied at school and asked to compare them. We went through bo…

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Physics

University (2016)

I was given 2 physics questions and 1 math question. I solved them and the tutors were happy.

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