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.

History

Newnham (2019)

In my first interview they asked me about the essay I had submitted and mainly focused on that and …

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Music

Newnham (2019)

In my subject interview, the first interview, I was interviewed by two individuals, one of them bei…

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History

Newnham (2019)

The first interview was based on my two submitted essays. There was a discussion as to my ideas and…

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Biochemistry

The Queen's (2017)

My 3 interviews were very different. The first was an interview which was me having a discussion wi…

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History

The Queen's (2019)

In my first interview we discussed a document that I had been given a few days prior to arriving. I…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Fitzwilliam (2019)

In HSPS we were given an hour to read an ethnography and make brief notes, which we then discussed …

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