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.

Classics

St Hilda's (2019)

In my first interview, I was interviewed by 3 tutors. I was asked about an Ovid poem I had been giv…

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History

Clare (2019)

- I had two interviews (both at Clare in Cambridge, two interviewers each, 20 mins each) in the sam…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Fitzwilliam (2019)

Two of my interviews had some reading before hand, one of which was a historical source and the oth…

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Chemical Engineering

Pembroke (2018)

Generally all the interviews asked me questions relating to my subjects. In the first interview, I …

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St Catharine's (2019)

My first interview was a general interview and I didn't really enjoy it. The interviewer asked me m…

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Classics (4 years)

Selwyn (2019)

In my first interview, we started talking about my views on the theatre that I had written about in…

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