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.

Biochemistry

St Hilda's (2019)

For my first interview at St. Hildas I was initially given a problem sheet to work on for 10 minute…

Read more

Natural Sciences (Biological)

Girton (2019)

The interviews were both in person. Both were conducted by two academics, both of whom were really …

Read more

History

Girton (2022)

The first interview was conducted by one of the History DoS and a Fellow and focussed on a pre-set …

Read more

Computer Science and Philosophy

Christ Church (2022)

I had 6 interviews and all of them were quite different, so I would say there is a lot of variety i…

Read more

Engineering

St Catharine's (2021)

In my first interview I was asked questions about the content of half of my personal statement, it …

Read more

Law

Homerton (2021)

Both interviews were very problem question/scenario-based, with me being given a statute and being …

Read more

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