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.

Human, Social and Political Science

Pembroke (2020)

The interview was very relaxed as the first ten minutes I was asked about specific interests of min…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Queens' (2021)

Mostly spoke about my personal statement in both. Had to analyse poetry in the languages I was appl…

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English

St John's (2021)

I struggled with the unseen poetry part of the interview - it was an extremely difficult poem and I…

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Geography

Murray Edwards (2021)

In both interviews, the interviewers started off by asking a couple of questions related to my pers…

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Engineering

Robinson (2017)

No discussion about personal statement or anything, just two engineering problems. One mechanical o…

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Human, Social and Political Science

St Catharine's (2021)

There were two interviewers in my interview. It started with a question on my personal statement, f…

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