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

Jesus (2019)

I had 3 interviews, one physics, one maths and the third at a different college which was a bit of …

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English Language and Literature

St Anne's (2018)

Interview #1 - What did you do: read prose passage; annotated passage; talked through passage; gave…

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Modern Languages

Christ Church (2019)

Language 1: I had 30 minutes to analyse a poem & annotate it. All in all an easy task, but duri…

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Medicine

St Catherine's (2018)

Every college has a different style of interviewing, there are usually two interviewers with each o…

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Classics

Jesus (2019)

My very first interview was at the Classics Faculty, it was a 20-minute-long language interview: Fi…

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Chemistry

Lincoln (2020)

For both of my interviews, as they were online, I had 10 minutes before to talk to some students al…

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