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

Christ's (2019)

For each of my interviews I was asked to read a poem beforehand and we discussed that for about 10 …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Emmanuel (2019)

I walked into the room where my first interview took place and it looked like a living room with so…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Newnham (2019)

Both interviews followed a general pattern of personal statement questions and then two problem que…

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Human, Social and Political Science

St Catharine's (2019)

Both very similar, very personal statement based. The first one was a variety of questions on topic…

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Computer Science

University (2018)

There was usually one interviewer and one person watching, they might give part of the interview to…

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Mathematics

St Edmund Hall (2020)

There was no personal statement discussion at all. In one interview, I was asked to sketch a few gr…

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