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 Languages

St Anne's (2016)

My interview questions were mainly about the passage I’d had 10 mins to prep before I went in. They…

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Medicine

Corpus Christi (2020)

Both interviews picked up on aspects of my personal statement. We talked through topics, graphs and…

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Maths

Gonville & Caius (2018)

In Maths, interviews are almost exclusively based on solving maths problems with some guidance from…

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Mathematics

The Queen's (2019)

Out of all 4 interviews there was only one time I was asked a question that wasn't about one of the…

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Chemistry

New (2018)

I had one physical chemistry interview, one inorganic and one organic. Both the inorganic and physi…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Downing (2019)

Biology stuff for me in the first interview, on disease. Second was a maths and chemistry-based int…

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