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)

Pembroke (2014)

One interview was more biology based and one was more chemistry based (there was a form sent around…

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Geography

Sidney Sussex (2017)

For my physical geography interview, the questions I was asked mainly stuck to topics I has studied…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Corpus Christi (2017)

So in both interviews the topic of languages was discussed but only to a basic level, I didn’t do a…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Gonville & Caius (2017)

I 'messed up' an integration question, then had a very hard mechanics question I got about a quarte…

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Medicine

Queens' (2018)

Before the interview (a few weeks earlier) they had asked me to supply topics of interest in the me…

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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.