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.

Veterinary Medicine

Jesus (2018)

I was given a bone and asked to identify it. They also asked some questions about a graph where I h…

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Biology

Worcester (2019)

My first interview began with describing a biological object that was put in front of me, they then…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Selwyn (2017)

I was asked questions relating to my personal statement to ease me in at the start (i.e. on a quali…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hugh's (2019)

For my Economics interview, I was given three different problems on paper which were predominantly …

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Music

Merton (2019)

I had two interviews at Merton initially, and one at another college. For the Merton ones, we were …

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Pembroke (2018)

The first was discussing a graph and a couple of maths questions. I didn't feel massively comfortab…

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