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

Merton (2012)

My first interview was the most intimidating. I was interviewing at Merton college. It was held in …

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Engineering

Gonville & Caius (2017)

Gonville & Caius had an initial test (aside from the interviews). This test consisted of severa…

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Mathematics

Worcester (2019)

For the first one, I was given a sheet of problems the day before, and during the interview we talk…

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English

Gonville & Caius (2016)

  In the first interview, I was taken into a quiet study room 10 or 15 minutes before the interview…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Pembroke (2019)

Since I applied for ab initio (from scratch) Spanish, my Spanish interview was mostly centred aroun…

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Classics (3 years)

Fitzwilliam (2022)

Discussing what I said in my personal statement, translation and grammar questions, sources questio…

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