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.

Law

Sidney Sussex (2015)

My interview was in early December. I had arrived the evening before as my interview was early in t…

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Archaeology

Newnham (2017)

In the first interview, I was shown a scenario and was asked to explain what I saw and why. It was …

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Engineering

Girton (2018)

There was no questions on my personal statement - both interviews focused on physics, maths, engine…

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Medicine

Emmanuel (2018)

Going into the interview, I couldn’t have been any more nervous. The interviewers were actually ver…

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Music

Gonville & Caius (2016)

My first interview felt more like a discussion than an interview. I was interviewed by a music fell…

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Computer Science

Gonville & Caius (2018)

Both interviews were technical, with problems to solve, leading into discussion on the way I approa…

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