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 of Art

St Catherine's (2021)

So my interviews were split up into Interview 1: personal statement and discussing supporting work,…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Christ Church (2019)

My first interview was archaeology-based. I had 10 minutes to look at an image of a wall painting. …

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Modern Languages

St Hilda's (2021)

We started by looking at a poem and reading through it, with the chance to ask about any unknown vo…

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Geography

Queens' (2020)

I had written about a book I had read focusing on a particular issue in a particular place. We talk…

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Maths

Emmanuel (2022)

Just discussing maths questions in both

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Biomedical Sciences

St Anne's (2021)

St Anne's interview: asked about my favourite thing to talk about at the moment in the field of bio…

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