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.

History and Politics

Churchill (2020)

The first part of the interview was based on a source shared twenty minutes before and I was asked …

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Homerton (2022)

The interviews were mainly focused on academics with one being a pure Biology interview and the oth…

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Computer Science and Philosophy

St Catherine's (2021)

For the CS interviews: It was all a lot of hard maths questions! Some interviewers had a little cha…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Clare (2022)

My interviews were almost entirely question-based. I thought the interviewers were friendly, the in…

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Geography

Christ Church (2019)

They were split roughly into three - questions about a graph/picture or something, questions genera…

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Music

Christ Church (2019)

There was pre-reading: one was about the Islamic devil in music, one involved being given a graphic…

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