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.

Economics

Selwyn (2018)

I had a tutor interview (which was based on my personal statement), and then two subject interviews…

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History and Modern Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

Both interview experiences were surprisingly fun: I got to talk about something I really loved and …

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Land Economy

Jesus (2018)

It was a relaxing, conversational interview. We talked mainly about the pre-reading I was given 10 …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Pembroke (2017)

I felt like my first interview went very badly and was also very irrelevant to my subject. I was as…

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Maths

Christ's (2017)

The test involved both long & short questions. From what I can remember, the questions were mai…

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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.