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

Clare (2019)

My first interview was the "post-A level language interview". The first half of the interview was c…

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Geography

Downing (2019)

For each interview, I was asked to read an article just before, and was given around 25 minutes to …

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Geography

Downing (2019)

We were asked to analyse data graphs and talk about articles as well as discussing personal stateme…

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English

Selwyn (2019)

I was given a poem ten minutes before whilst sitting outside the interview, and I had to annotate a…

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English

St John's (2019)

My first interview was focused on my general interests based on a list of texts I’d submitted, plus…

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English

St Catharine's (2016)

We talked about my personal statement for a bit - not all of it but a couple of texts. We also talk…

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