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.

Philosophy

Queens' (2018)

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

Read more

Engineering

Peterhouse (2017)

The preparatory problems were 4 questions, 2 easy and 2 hard and you had to pick one of each and tr…

Read more

Medicine

Emmanuel (2016)

The first interview was mainly problem solving. I was asked about my thoughts on a list of expensiv…

Read more

Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2018)

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

Read more

English

Christ's (2016)

I was given unseen poems to read aloud, then asked for notable aspects of their style and form. We …

Read more

Human, Social and Political Science

Clare (2014)

The first interview was with one politics professor. I was surprised that she didn't ask me about t…

Read more

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