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.

Medicine

Gonville & Caius (2018)

My first interview was a more clinically based one. My interviewer was quite friendly, definitely n…

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Law

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Interview 1 - topics discussed: Criminal sentencing, medicine, positive discrimination. I felt good…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Gonville & Caius (2018)

At the start of the interview I had to do some maths. I actually panicked at the maths questions be…

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Maths

Emmanuel (2015)

I would say both interviews felt ok at the time. The problems given to me were quite varied; I was …

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English

King's (2017)

My first interview was a group interview, with three other applicants. We were given a passage of t…

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Computer Science

Gonville & Caius (2018)

Both interviews were technical, with problems to solve, leading into discussion on the way I approa…

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