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.

Computer Science and Philosophy

St Anne's (2019)

My first philosophy interview started with some logic questions that I was given previously, as wel…

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Classics

Merton (2019)

My first interview was talking about stuff in my personal statement and it was a really nice conver…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

St John's (2019)

The first interview was more general; about me and my personal statement. The second was about chem…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Selwyn (2019)

Both of my interviews were nerve-wracking but rewarding. I was terrified, but the interviewers were…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Gonville & Caius (2017)

My first interview was more like having an interesting chat with someone you just met at a coffee s…

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History

Trinity (2019)

I had 2 hours of preparatory reading in the library before getting to my first interview. I had a 1…

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