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

Fitzwilliam (2021)

I was asked a mix of topics in both interviews, they were all maths questions - nothing on personal…

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Classics (3 years)

Queens' (2021)

In one they showed me an image to describe, asked me to translate a piece of Latin unseen, and had …

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Engineering

Trinity Hall (2018)

In my first interview, it opened with a mechanics question that the interviewer had developed based…

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Human Sciences

St Catherine's (2021)

I was so nervous before the interview but this faded the minute we started, I actually really enjoy…

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Philosophy and Theology

St Peter's (2021)

In my first interview, we spoke about the problem of evil (an A-Level RS topic) which put me at eas…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Somerville (2021)

I had two interviews for PPE: Politics and Philosophy in one, and Economics in the other, and each …

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