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.

English and Modern Languages

Balliol (2019)

In each English interview I was given a text (a poem) and 30 mins to read through it and write down…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Homerton (2018)

We talked about academic problems; one interview was more focused on Biology, the other more on Che…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Magdalene (2018)

I was asked two general physics questions of A Level H2 standard and one Mathematics question on gr…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Newnham (2019)

In each interview I had two interviewees, both of whom were very friendly! It felt more like a disc…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Emmanuel (2019)

Interview 1 was purely problem-based. The first half of the interview was about my topic of choice,…

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Medicine

Fitzwilliam (2015)

I was asked very science-based questions; we discussed various organs and organ systems. The questi…

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