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.

Economics

Queens' (2017)

I was asked two problem-style questions. One more macro themed, the other more micro themed (althou…

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English

Girton (2017)

I had to read a passage before I went into each interview room. The first was a modern poem, the se…

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Medicine

St Catharine's (2019)

Both of my interviews were science-based except for one or two ethics questions. The only thing the…

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Medicine

Peterhouse (2019)

First Interview: We had 10 minutes of preparation time with a range of questions to research on the…

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2019)

I was asked some maths and physics questions, more interesting than the typical A Level question bu…

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Medicine

Peterhouse (2019)

My first interview was rather unorthodox. Prior to the interview, I was given a question sheet with…

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