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.

Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

St Hilda's (2019)

For two of the three interviews I had work/reading given 15 mins prior, which was discussed and cor…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity (2016)

French: We discussed a poem by a famous Francophone poet and themes and trivia related to the poem.…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Magdalene (2019)

15 minutes on my personal statement, the rest discussing a text in the target languages which I had…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Queens' (2019)

Theme was on topics in my personal statement, I'd written about eco feminism in my personal stateme…

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Law

Trinity (2019)

Both started off with a brief discussion about my personal statement. In the first one I was so ner…

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Music

Christ Church (2019)

There was pre-reading, one was about the Islamic devil in music, one involved being given a graphic…

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