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.

Law

Sidney Sussex (2017)

We discussed the extract I was given before the interview and they tried to get behind my reasoning…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Selwyn (2016)

One interview with 15 minutes to prepare a passage of peculiar but not too challenging German to di…

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Maths

Selwyn (2016)

At the beginning of each of the subject-specific interviews, I was asked about what I had done in s…

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Economics

Christ's (2017)

We started off with some graph sketching followed by a problem about externalities (no prior knowle…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

Politics: I was given a newspaper article with questions. I had 20 minutes of preparation time, and…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Christ's (2017)

In my first interview we discussed more abstract concepts, such as how we would consider or diagnos…

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