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.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St John's (2019)

Both of my interviews focused heavily on my personal statement (I had a general interview and a sub…

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Law

Robinson (2018)

Both interviews were led by a senior academic at the College with another person present who didn't…

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Computer Science

Queens' (2017)

My first interview discussed my personal statement and then one long Computer Science-related quest…

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Engineering

Magdalene (2018)

Firstly, they wanted to know my personal opinion on an issue that was in the news recently about en…

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Engineering

Clare (2017)

1st Interview: discussed a set of questions that was given to me an hour before the interview to wo…

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Music

Downing (2018)

My first interview was with my Director of Studies (DoS) & another academic. I was given an art…

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