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

Magdalene (2017)

French Interview: We talked generally about books I mentioned in my personal statement. We then mov…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Jesus (2019)

Talked about physics, chemistry and maths problems - interviewer went through questions with me hel…

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Linguistics

King's (2018)

We spoke mainly about my personal statement. I was asked questions about every area I wrote about i…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Discussed the text I was given before the interviews to read over and respond to. Then in my French…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Jesus (2017)

We talked a lot about Hispanic and Lusophone culture! I was asked questions about my personal state…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Queens' (2018)

I was asked physics and maths questions in my second interview, which were of the style of Isaac Ph…

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