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

St Catherine's (2019)

We discussed topics within my personal statement and if I agreed with certain historians opinions w…

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History

Balliol (2019)

I had three interviews (two with my interviewing College and one with the College that accepted me)…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Peterhouse (2019)

In my first interview I had chemistry and physiology type questions: the chemistry questions were o…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

University (2017)

My first interview was ancient history-based. Just before the start of the interview, I was given a…

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English

Peterhouse (2018)

Before each interview, I was given a small extract from a text (with no context) and had 15 minutes…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

The Queen's (2019)

In my philosophy interview I was given philosophy extracts for pre-Reading. I had to choose one to …

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