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.

Human, Social and Political Science

Sidney Sussex (2012)

The two interviews were themed: one was Anthropology-themed and the other was Archaeology-themed. I…

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Human, Social and Political Science

St Catharine's (2018)

The interviewers offered me water and cookies before starting. The first interview started with que…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Fitzwilliam (2018)

We talked about themes mentioned in my personal statement, discussed my extra-curriculars and how I…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Newnham (2019)

In my first interview, I was given some data to analyse like graphs and tables and I had to point o…

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Maths

Trinity (2018)

We went over the pre-interview test. At first we looked at some of the questions I had done. Essent…

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English Language and Literature

Keble (2017)

There was a poem for each interview, and they seemed quite tailored to what I was interested in as …

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