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.

Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2014)

In the first interview I was asked exclusively physics questions, these were difficult but even whe…

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Medicine

Emmanuel (2018)

It varied from being asked questions involving basic statistics to being shown a photo and being as…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Sidney Sussex (2018)

The chemistry interview began with a fairly simple mathematical question on chemical calculations (…

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Chemistry

St Catherine's (2017)

The interviewers were nice but I was very nervous so I answered questions quickly, giving the wrong…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first interview began with a a quick discussion about a book I had mentioned in my personal sta…

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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.