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.

Medicine

Churchill (2016)

There was one interview that was more science-based and one that was more ethics-based. There were …

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Education

Selwyn (2019)

My first interview was very personal statement focused, for example on the books I read, on my own …

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Medicine

Clare (2019)

They asked me about the circulatory system, designing experiments/drug trials, control variables, g…

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English and Modern Languages

Worcester (2019)

All of mine started with discussing a source (e.g. poem) which lasted half of the interview and the…

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English

Peterhouse (2020)

My first interview was a general interview with very broad questions. I was asked about how English…

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Education

Homerton (2019)

My first interview was a general interview. I had two interviewers. The interview began with questi…

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