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.

Classics and Modern Languages

Worcester (2019)

The first interview for Classics started with the biggest question I have about languages, which wa…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

St Catharine's (2019)

The interviews definitely got less stressful as it went on! The first one was a bit shambolic from …

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Engineering Science

St Edmund Hall (2020)

In the first one they asked me two physics questions on projectiles and on materials - they were ok…

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History and English

Harris Manchester (2018)

My English interview was based on an unseen poem and my written work. I was given twenty minutes to…

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Economics

Downing (2019)

Interview one: both interviewers asked me a question. The first was quite a general economics quest…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

Magdalen (2019)

In my psychology interviews, we talked through several hypothetical studies. One of these was compl…

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