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.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Christ Church (2019)

PPE interviews differ for each college and for my 3 interviews at Christ Church it was purely subje…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Corpus Christi (2016)

I found it very nerve wracking and stressful to start with, worrying if I’d be able to give the cor…

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Maths

King's (2018)

Lots of subject questions in both interviews. I was asked to improve on the answers I had provided …

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Geography

Fitzwilliam (2018)

I had a piece of set reading prior to the interview, and one article given on the day itself. We us…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Hertford (2019)

For Economics, there was one about freakanomics, a game theory question, and then the rest was math…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

King's (2017)

The interviews were essentially like a supervision. I had been given a text in my post A-Level lang…

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