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.

Natural Sciences (Physical)

Downing (2019)

The first interview was the "physical" one although I didn't do physics A level so they mostly aske…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Queens' (2021)

Firstly, there were NO TRICK QUESTIONS, despite the rumours online about this being the case. My in…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Homerton (2021)

My first interview revolved around a source I was given ~30 minutes prior, it was quite long but fa…

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Maths

Jesus (2022)

Both interviews took approximately the same structure: after a brief introduction we jumped straigh…

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History and Politics

Emmanuel (2021)

History: I had a random source to read and analyse 30 mins before the interview with no provenance …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Gonville & Caius (2018)

My first interview went nicely. There were two people and they gave me some physics problems. We di…

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