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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

St Catharine's (2018)

Interview 1: The first interview was based more on language, linguistics, its performance, philosop…

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History

Corpus Christi (2019)

Both my interviews were about the essay I submitted, although they were about different aspects of …

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Veterinary Medicine

Clare (2018)

The first interview was based on my personal statement. Neither of my interviewers' work was in vet…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Emmanuel (2017)

I arrived into the room for both interviews and was made to feel comfortable. They didn't ask me an…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Pembroke (2019)

I had 2 interviews for physical natural sciences. One for chemistry and one for physics. In the phy…

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Classics (3 years)

Christ's (2012)

I had multiple interviews: two subject-based, and one translation. The translation was fairly strai…

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