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

Pembroke (2021)

My interview was virtual, so I logged in a few minutes early, got put into a waiting room, and then…

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Computer Science

Robinson (2022)

I only had one interview. The interviewers asked me some questions about my personal statement, fol…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Jesus (2022)

There were questions on a graph and ways to linearise it. I was also asked about my personal statem…

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Classics (3 years)

Newnham (2021)

For the first half of each interview, I was given half an hour to look at an unseen source - one te…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Newnham (2021)

I had 2 interviews, one was a more general interview and the other was subject-specific. In the sub…

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History

Brasenose (2021)

The interview started on a broad topic (retrospectively I know now it was in reference to the Appro…

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