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

Fitzwilliam (2017)

For the first interview, I had to talk about a completely new philosophical topic, but with lots of…

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Maths

Sidney Sussex (2014)

The questions I answered in the admissions test were discussed and explored - it was hard and there…

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History

Clare (2015)

In my first interview, I was asked some less specific questions which were designed to test how I p…

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Law

Girton (2017)

My first interview focused on a discussion about 'liberty'. I found this very overwhelming and did …

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Veterinary Medicine

Girton (2016)

The topics discussed included A level biology and chemistry, discussion of the topics included on m…

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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.