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.

Human, Social and Political Science

King's (2016)

The interview began by discussing the essay that I had written in the entry examination taken in la…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Corpus Christi (2016)

Each interview was broadly the same format - I was given a piece of text for 15 minutes to look ove…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first interview was very chemistry based. It was very difficult and I didn’t understand some of…

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Computer Science

Pembroke (2017)

The CSAT was long maths-based questions leading on from the basic A-Level syllabus and some problem…

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Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2017)

Basically the full range of medical questions, a mixture of pre clinical (scientific theory) and cl…

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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.