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.

Music

Jesus (2017)

In the first interview, I was asked to discuss my thoughts on a previously unseen piece of music an…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Gonville & Caius (2018)

I was given a text to study for 10 minutes prior to my first interview. We then discussed this text…

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English

Emmanuel (2016)

My first interview involved an unseen poem which I had to collect and read half an hour before. I w…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Sidney Sussex (2015)

The first interview was a piece of unseen reading. I had 20 minutes to read and study it and then w…

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Law

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Interview 1 - topics discussed: Criminal sentencing, medicine, positive discrimination. I felt good…

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Computer Science

Gonville & Caius (2018)

Both interviews were technical, with problems to solve, leading into discussion on the way I approa…

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