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.

Maths

Robinson (2017)

Firstly, in the interview with the DoS, I was asked about running (since I run competetively) and h…

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Law

Clare (2017)

The first interview was pretty straightforward. I was given a section on Contract law principles, a…

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Geography

Queens' (2017)

My interview was a much better experience than I thought it would be, the two people interviewing m…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

King's (2016)

Mostly about my reading, how I planned to spend my gap year, my specific interests.

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2017)

In the first interview they spent about 5 minutes on my work experience from my personal statement …

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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.