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

Merton (2019)

I was asked questions about my written work and books mentioned in my personal statement. In every …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2020)

Both my interviews started with a discussion on the pre-reading I was given 20 minutes beforehand -…

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Mathematics

Worcester (2019)

All the questions were specifically maths questions (i.e. no personal statement questions etc). Whe…

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Geography

Newnham (2019)

1st interview: I had to read an article about human rights abuses and complexities in the shift tow…

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Law

Merton (2019)

Both of my interviews were based on 45 mins of pre-reading done just before the interview - on two …

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Archaeology

Newnham (2020)

Questions in the interview centered on discussing the books I had included in my personal statement…

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