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.

Geography

Newnham (2020)

They were very nice and helped with questions.  

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Engineering

Magdalene (2015)

I walked in and was greeted in a friendly manner by the interviewer. The interviewer briefly explai…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Magdalene (2019)

In interview one: - Talked about essays I’d done before the interview, talked about themes that wer…

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History and Politics

Trinity (2015)

The first one was all about my personal statement and the second was more open-ended (what do you w…

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Chemical Engineering

Jesus (2018)

I had one maths and one science interview. For the maths interview, I collected an envelope of ques…

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2013)

I stayed overnight (for free) in college because I wanted to be well rested for my interview the ne…

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