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

Peterhouse (2018)

My first interview was split up into three sections: the first and longest was discussing the sourc…

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History (Ancient and Modern)

St Anne's (2019)

The first interview was mostly personal statement based, discussing one of the topics I had include…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Peterhouse (2019)

Both of my interviews were split into two sections: the first interview was half chemistry, half bi…

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Law

Peterhouse (2019)

My subject-specific interview was scheduled first. I was given some time to read and make notes on …

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Engineering Science

Worcester (2019)

We talked for a few minutes about why I liked engineering and discussed some things I had said in m…

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Biochemistry

Trinity (2018)

My first interview was split into two sections, each led by a different tutor. They took the style …

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