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.

Physics

St John's (2018)

In each interview I was asked a series of maths and physics problems, with follow up questions on m…

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2018)

Interview 1: This was a purely technical interview; a few minutes of small talk to get me comfortab…

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Economics

Pembroke (2018)

Was as expected, the first interview was academic. They ask questions related to subject. The quest…

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Modern Languages

New (2019)

French: It was two interviewers. They took turns for each section of the interview. A passage from …

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History

Jesus (2019)

The first interview was to talk through a source that I had been given about 20 minutes to look at …

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Medicine

Pembroke (2019)

In the first interview I got a short question about my work experience and after that I was given a…

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