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.

Biochemistry

Corpus Christi (2019)

We discussed basic chemistry, a maths question, and a DNA question in my first interview. In my sec…

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Maths

Trinity (2019)

My only interview was academic. The interviewer posed a question and we worked through it on paper.…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Sidney Sussex (2019)

My first interview was a biology interview, where I was asked to comment on some animal diagrams co…

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Physics

Worcester (2019)

I was given physics questions to think about and talk through in front of them, with the interviewe…

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Archaeology

Fitzwilliam (2020)

My EPQ did come up, but not everything on my personal statement was discussed - so keep this in min…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Hertford (2019)

In the first (faculty) interview, we worked through a problem sheet related to language. It's was s…

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