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.

Chemistry

Jesus (2019)

I had a separate interview for each section of chemistry (organic, inorganic and physical) and anot…

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Mathematics

Worcester (2019)

My first interview was based on a problem sheet of six questions I got the night before. I had alre…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Edmund Hall (2018)

It was very much about getting my personal opinion on the various questions. They wanted to know wh…

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Modern Languages

The Queen's (2018)

30 minutes before the interview we were given an unseen text in the target language with an English…

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Biochemistry

St Anne's (2016)

My first interview was on biophysics/maths. I found this really intimidating at first as I hadn't d…

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Chemistry

Jesus (2019)

Inorganic - we spoke about Born-Haber energy cycles which were in my A level course and talking thr…

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