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.

Medicine

St John's (2018)

My first interview was a "general" medicine interview, where I was asked questions such as why I wa…

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Chemistry

St Anne's (2019)

I was asked 2 or 3 different questions in each interview, most with some kind of diagram or handout…

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Physics

Hertford (2020)

I was asked in two of my interviews to explain something that I talked about in my personal stateme…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Christ Church (2019)

We talked about Chinese culture, history, and language. I was asked about a book that I mentioned o…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Downing (2019)

I was given texts in both of my interviews and was asked questions about the texts as well as my pe…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

For my first interview (Latin) I was asked to translate an unseen passage into English and explain …

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