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

Hertford (2018)

We were told at a meeting the evening before that we would have pre-reading for the first interview…

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History Of Art

Newnham (2019)

Both of my interviews were of a similar format. We spoke a little about my interests that I had bro…

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Biochemistry

University (2016)

I was asked about my personal statement very generally such as why did I like the book I had mentio…

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Biochemistry

St John's (2018)

At first, I was asked for something simple in my personal statement (likely just to check that I kn…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Emmanuel (2015)

We started off discussing a small point of my personal statement (academically), building onto my f…

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History

Homerton (2019)

My source interview essentially required me to answer questions about what I inferred from the sour…

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