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.

Archaeology

Sidney Sussex (2016)

First Interview: I was presented with some archaeological material and asked to talk about what we …

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Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Interview 1: I was greeted by two people. We discussed some social aspects of medicine, and they ga…

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Medicine

King's (2018)

It started off really casually with me exchanging pleasantries with the interviewer. I suppose he w…

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Law

Sidney Sussex (2018)

In the first interview, there was a general question about "why law". Then I was given a short, one…

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Education

Clare (2016)

We had a TED-talk video to watch beforehand so we discussed issues from that including school acces…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

The first interview was a general language aptitude test with two language tutors, although they we…

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