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.

Engineering

Newnham (2020)

- Each of my four interviewers asked me maths or physics questions around a certain topic. No discu…

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Law

St Peter's (2020)

My first interview was on understanding statutes, so I was given some pre-reading for around ten mi…

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Medicine

Christ's (2020)

My first interview was quite long-winded; I was given a question from each interviewer which could …

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History

St Anne's (2017)

I did not have a personal statement interview even though I had spent a good amount of time practis…

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Biochemistry

St Anne's (2017)

I had two interviews at St Anne’s; one more Chemistry based and another more biology-based (likely …

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Mathematics and Computer Science

St Anne's (2018)

We discussed questions based on graphing in both the real and complex planes in my maths interviews…

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