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.

Maths

Queens' (2022)

One interview was a random set of unrelated questions. The second had a few which linked, but topic…

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Modern Languages

Somerville (2022)

1. In the first interview, there was very little structure and they didn't talk much about anything…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Downing (2021)

I did it in an office in my college as it was all on Zoom. The interview began by them showing me a…

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Geography

Christ's (2021)

One interview was focused on human geography. I was asked about my personal statement (but I wasn't…

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History

Fitzwilliam (2021)

My first interview was mostly based on the essays I had submitted. I was asked questions on both th…

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Geography

St Catharine's (2021)

I had one human geography interview immediately followed by a physical geography one, both with two…

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