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.

Earth Sciences (Geology)

Worcester (2018)

The tutors in the first interview settled me in by asking a question about myself but the answer th…

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Linguistics

Gonville & Caius (2019)

In my linguistics-specific interview, I was asked about an item off my personal statement - somethi…

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English

Pembroke (2019)

My first interview was structured to focus on pre-1800 literature and I was asked several questions…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity (2016)

In my ab initio interview, we mainly focused on my personal statement. We talked about why I wanted…

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History and Politics

Robinson (2019)

The interviewers mainly focussed on an unseen source and my submitted work in the history one. The …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2019)

I had one interview for each language. They both followed the same theme - I had to read a text, an…

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