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.

Geography

Mansfield (2021)

The interviews went between many different topics in quick succession! Stop and think for a moment …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity Hall (2020)

In my first interview, we discussed an extract from a literary text that I'd been given about half …

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

St Hugh's (2021)

Both of my Psychology interviews largely revolved around data and images I was given - one of the i…

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Geography

Mansfield (2020)

One of my interviewers spoke A LOT which made me anxious since I knew we had little time. I had to …

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Geography

Keble (2021)

One of my interviews was more 'good cop' and the other more 'bad cop'. I had a mix of questions and…

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Geography

Brasenose (2021)

Consisted of being shown pictures and being asked to relate them to certain topics, as well as bein…

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