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.

History and Modern Languages

Fitzwilliam (2018)

In both the history and the languages interviews I had been given a text to look at beforehand. In …

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Psychology (Experimental)

Wadham (2020)

My first interview was much more ‘sciency’ than my second. It was split into two parts, there were …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Jesus (2018)

I was given 15 minutes to prepare a text. For French, it was a description from a novel and for Ger…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Corpus Christi (2018)

50% was a discussion about literature (both from personal statement and some reading that was given…

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Philosophy

Christ's (2018)

I was asked philosophy questions in both of my interviews. They did not ask me about my personal st…

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2019)

The first interview focused mainly on Shakespeare and the wider reading within my personal statemen…

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