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 (Biological)

Sidney Sussex (2015)

First interview included a problem question about DNA. Then they gave me a (not ridiculously bad) c…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Peterhouse (2019)

My interviews were each split in half with each section focusing on one 1A module (Biology of Cells…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Downing (2017)

In the first interview, we focused on my personal statement and my additional personal statement fr…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2016)

I arrived at Sidney and sat in a room. I was then asked to read a text given to me in Spanish about…

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Geography

Newnham (2014)

General interview: discussed some things from my personal statement (e.g. work experience). Then we…

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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.