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 (4 years)

St John's (2017)

For my first interview, it was more of a personality interview, with lots of discussion about my pe…

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Medicine

Trinity (2019)

We predominantly discussed some basic biology questions, as well as a couple of maths questions. Th…

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Computer Science

Peterhouse (2019)

I talked about two aspects of my personal statement and then had a number of logical/mathematical p…

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Economics

St Catharine's (2019)

My first interview was half maths and half economics - there was a problem sheet with some question…

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Engineering

Christ's (2013)

I had one technical and one non-technical interview. The first was working through a few questions …

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Economics

Hughes Hall (2019)

Discussed math questions and economic concepts, did graph sketching, and discussed a book I include…

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