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.

Natural Sciences (Biological)

Emmanuel (2018)

For my first interview I had chosen a question topic in advance. Both of my interviewers welcomed m…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2019)

In my first interview we did a physics practice question that wasn’t too hard, but they asked incre…

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Materials Science

St Edmund Hall (2020)

Teddy (St Edmund's) Hall - started with some general discussions about my interest in materials, mo…

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Linguistics

Christ's (2019)

The first interview wasn't subject specific, it was lead by an Egyptologist and (I think) a histori…

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Law

St Catherine's (2019)

They gave us a short reading in one (a judgement from a case from the European courts) and then a l…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Newnham (2018)

At first I was given some time to look over an unnamed extract. We then discussed that text and my …

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