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.

Natural Sciences (Physical)

Peterhouse (2019)

The interviews were on my two subject choices and consisted of various problems I had to solve.

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Peterhouse (2017)

First interview: one of the interviewers asked me which topics I had particularly enjoyed so far in…

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Chemistry

St Anne's (2019)

There were two tutors in each of my interview who introduced themselves at the start and then did r…

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Materials Science

St Anne's (2019)

A mixture of things: manufacturing methods, mechanics (maths calculations), atomic structure and sp…

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Modern Languages

Jesus (2019)

My first interview was based around my personal statement and a few grammar/translation tests - the…

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English

Peterhouse (2020)

The first interview was preceded by 15 minutes of reading time, where I was given an unseen extract…

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