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.

Music

Robinson (2018)

Before my first interview I was given a piece of text, written by a composer, to look at and analys…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Jesus (2017)

My first interview involved a lot of discussion about my personal statement, and general topics in …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Emmanuel (2018)

I had 1 Maths, 1 Physics interview. (You could pick Physics or Chemistry for second interview).1st…

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Medicine

Emmanuel (2017)

We covered questions on statistics, global health, specific diseases and talked about my personal …

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Philosophy

Queens' (2018)

We didn't discuss anything from my personal statement or why I wanted to study philosophy. The focu…

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Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2018)

Personal statement questions, discussion of a news article, analysing medical data and graphs, basi…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.