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.

Architecture

Christ's (2018)

The first interview expanded on ideas I had written about in my personal statement then I was asked…

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History Of Art

Corpus Christi (2018)

The interviewers mainly wanted me to talk about specific artworks which I was shown copies of, alth…

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Geography

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Before the interviews, I was given half an hour to look at two short poems. The first half of the f…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Sidney Sussex (2017)

In my first interview we chatted a lot about films on the topic I studied at Advanced Higher Histor…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Selwyn (2018)

My first interview was based on a passage I was given 10 minutes to read beforehand. I was asked ab…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

The first interview was a general language aptitude test with two language tutors, although they we…

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