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.

Medicine

Clare (2019)

Almost all questions were academic (eg circulatory system, statistics), while some were problem-sol…

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Economics

Downing (2019)

In the first interview, they asked me a very broad question about money and why we use it, which wa…

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English and Modern Languages

Worcester (2019)

I had 5 interviews in total. In the first English interview, we started with discussing my A Level …

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Classics

St Hilda's (2018)

My first interview was a discussion of an unseen passage (English translation provided) and a philo…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Trinity Hall (2019)

In the first interview, I got asked a lot of biology questions. I hadn't taken Alevel biology or re…

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Engineering Science

St Hugh's (2019)

I had mentioned my interest in the energy sector in engineering. Consecutively, I was shown an inte…

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