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.

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Christ's (2017)

Very biological science based so we talked about hormones and conditional reflexes (Pavlov study et…

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Geography

Newnham (2016)

Interview one: about 15 minutes spent talking about geography, why I wanted to study it, discussing…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Newnham (2016)

1 chemistry interview - based on A level topics such as pH and analytical techniques.1 physics inte…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first was not really an interview, more like a friendly meeting.The second I was questioned on …

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Education

Emmanuel (2017)

I was sent an article to read a couple of weeks before the interview, and was asked questions about…

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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.