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

Queens' (2018)

In the first interview, we started by talking about my personal statement, they wanted to see my en…

Read more

Computer Science

Sidney Sussex (2018)

In my first interview, we jumped straight into logic-based maths questions. There was no questions …

Read more

Engineering

Emmanuel (2016)

All of the questions were mechanics based. In the first I had to derive a fairly simple acceleratio…

Read more

Natural Sciences (Biological)

Newnham (2018)

We talked a lot about my personal statement which gave me time to talk about some of the reading an…

Read more

English

Sidney Sussex (2018)

My first interview was more general, regarding points on my personal statement which focused largel…

Read more

Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

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

Read more

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