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

Sidney Sussex (2018)

The first interview was a general language aptitude test with two language tutors, although they we…

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Law

Girton (2018)

First there were some introductory questions to calm me down. Then they asked me pretty open (very …

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Robinson (2018)

I had no questions on my personal statement. The interview comprised of four or five broad question…

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Geography

Girton (2016)

Both of my interviews were 'subject interviews', i.e. they were specifically to do with geography a…

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Philosophy

Emmanuel (2015)

The first interview was pastoral and very chatty. We mostly talked about my personal statement i.e.…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Jesus (2018)

The first interview focused mainly on a few physics problems that I was asked to work through. From…

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