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.

English

Newnham (2015)

In the first interview I was given a poem to read beforehand, so we started with me basically just …

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Corpus Christi (2016)

Each interviewer in both interviews had a separate field they were discussing - biochemistry, maths…

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Engineering

Corpus Christi (2018)

In the first interview we talked about electrical circuits and capacitors. The content was away fro…

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Music

Selwyn (2016)

The general one was exactly that - general. More about me and seeing how passionate I really am abo…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Newnham (2016)

The first one was heavily focused on research methods and statistics. I was handed a couple of grap…

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Computer Science

Gonville & Caius (2018)

Both interviews were technical, with problems to solve, leading into discussion on the way I approa…

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