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.

Classics (4 years)

Clare (2014)

The 'academic' interview at Clare focused on my responses in the written tests and on the content o…

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Maths (with Physics)

Peterhouse (2015)

Maths Interview 1: We discussed a mechanics question that was quite complicated but based on A-Leve…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2017)

Before both interviews I was given a text (one in the target language for my post A-Level language …

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Music

Gonville & Caius (2016)

The works given one hour before, books I'd recently been reading, questions about personal statemen…

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History

Sidney Sussex (2015)

The sources were all 17th century writings. They weren't that hard to understand as there was an ac…

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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…

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