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.

English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2019)

We talked over/analysed a text for the first half, then talked about what I’d been reading, what I …

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Classics

Trinity (2018)

In three of my interviews I was given a text approximately 15 minutes before the interview itself t…

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Classics (4 years)

Newnham (2019)

In my first interview, they started off by giving me a visual prompt - the tomb of a Roman emperor …

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History and Politics

Girton (2019)

Politics interview: the entire interview was the interviewers going through my personal statement, …

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2019)

In 3 of them I had a short text to look at before and then spoke for half the time about that and t…

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English Language and Literature

Trinity (2020)

I talked about the texts in my personal statement, and I had to analyse a poem and discuss it in th…

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