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.

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Queens' (2021)

In my first interview, I discussed my essays and the work that I was doing for my A-Level and then …

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Maths

Queens' (2021)

Both interviews were entirely problem-focused - there were no “why do you want to study maths” styl…

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Linguistics

Trinity Hall (2021)

The interviews were heavily structured, and there wasn't really much room for free conversation. My…

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Linguistics

King's (2021)

We did a mixture of exercises which didn't require any previous knowledge and were more about your …

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Computer Science

Trinity Hall (2021)

I had two interviews, each with two interviewers (although one usually did most of the talking). In…

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Veterinary Medicine

Girton (2022)

There was interpreting graphs/studies, discussing stressful scenarios and how to deal with them, an…

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