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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2018)

MML interview: examined a passage by a French author, was asked to give my thoughts on it, to trans…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Clare (2017)

The first interview was focused on biology, not at all related to my personal statement. I was aske…

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Maths

Sidney Sussex (2018)

Before the interview I took an hour long test at the college. I spoke to two professors about attem…

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Engineering

Jesus (2018)

In the interview, I explained things written in my personal statement, going more in depth than wha…

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Chemical Engineering

Selwyn (2014)

In the interviews I had basic engineering and maths problem solving questions to complete in front …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

The first interview was a general language aptitude test with two language tutors, although they we…

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