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

Newnham (2018)

In my interview for my ab initio language, we firstly discussed in English the novel I had read (in…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Robinson (2017)

The French interview consisted of a few pages of verbal grammar tests, which I mainly got wrong so …

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History and Politics

Sidney Sussex (2017)

In the first we spoke about how you would define history and politics and in what ways the two subj…

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Philosophy

Selwyn (2016)

My first, short interview was general (non-academic). They asked me about my A level subjects and h…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Jesus (2017)

I was asked two questions in each interview, and one about my personal statement. In the first they…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Peterhouse (2016)

To begin with, we spoke about where I was from/how I was doing to help settle me in. My interviews …

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