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.

Psychology (Experimental)

Corpus Christi (2019)

My first interview was at Corpus Christi - I was super nervous but the interviewers were very nice …

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Biochemistry

Christ Church (2019)

My first interview was very relaxed and quite discussion based. We started with talking about an ar…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

Brasenose (2019)

My first interview at Brasenose was on philosophy - which I wasn’t expecting as I applied for psych…

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Music

Worcester (2017)

My personal statement didn't come up at all. Each interview was focussed around either a score, a t…

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History

Fitzwilliam (2017)

We talked about a piece of text that they got me to read and two essays I'd submitted in my first i…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2012)

For the Spanish interview, I had two interviewers who were both native Spanish speakers - one was a…

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