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

Gonville & Caius (2019)

Mine were mostly personal statement based. For German I had a passage in German to analayse. Mostly…

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Veterinary Medicine

St John's (2018)

There was not much discussion of my personal statement. I was mainly given scenarios or graphs to r…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Girton (2018)

I had two interviews. My personal statement was never discussed. My first interview consisted of me…

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Human, Social and Political Science

St John's (2019)

The first interview I had, which I think is unique to St John's, was just a general interview with …

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Law

Pembroke (2019)

The interviewers asked me questions about my personal statement in the first interview. Then we dis…

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Medicine

Magdalene (2019)

Both of my interviews were very academic, and despite filling in the SAQ about which modules I did …

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