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.

Natural Sciences (Biological)

Christ's (2020)

We first talked about my UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) essay, where the inter…

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Engineering Science

Christ Church (2020)

No personal questions, straight into the action! Had one maths related question and one physics rel…

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English

Downing (2019)

My interviews were mainly discussion-based. Of course they asked questions to prompt the discussion…

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Maths

Sidney Sussex (2018)

I walked in and was greeted by both interviewers; following this, they gave a brief discussion abou…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Christ's (2020)

Mostly A-Level content based, but involved working through problems and diagrams and seeing what I …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Selwyn (2020)

My first interview was based around a source sent to me half an hour before the interview, which wa…

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