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.

Archaeology and Anthropology

St Hugh's (2020)

I was presented with unexpected objects which I had to create a consistent analysis of. I was also …

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Christ's (2019)

I had separate interviews from academics in different subjects who asked me subject-related questio…

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English Language and Literature

Exeter (2020)

I had a contemporary poem to blindly analyse, and then discussed my coursework texts and the texts …

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Psychology (Experimental)

Somerville (2016)

The first 3 interviews I had were all pretty similar - psychology focused, lots of interpreting gra…

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Psychology (Experimental)

St Edmund Hall (2020)

Most of my interviews were on research methods but related to a specific area of psychology, all of…

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History

Jesus (2019)

In my first interview I tripped over and basically fell into my chair - yes, it was as awful as it …

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