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.

Medicine

Emmanuel (2017)

Started with basic questions from A level biology and then questions got gradually harder to build …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Emmanuel (2017)

The interview was based on the text I had been given for half an hour before going in. This was, at…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Emmanuel (2017)

I was super nervous during the interviews because with humanities they tend to try and challenge yo…

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Architecture

Trinity Hall (2019)

We looked over my portfolio and they asked me about my inspirations in both interviews. I was also …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Emmanuel (2015)

One maths based: graph sketching, a question about binary numbers, geometric sequences. One physics…

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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.