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.

Chemical Engineering

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The general interview was just chatting with the interviewers. Questions not too hard, but there wa…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

King's (2014)

I found both interviews hard and I felt that my performance was at best mediocre throughout each of…

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English

Christ's (2017)

Both interviews followed a very similar format; two interviewers attended each, I was given a poem …

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English

Peterhouse (2017)

My first interview was focused on literature in general - texts I read for pleasure as mentioned in…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2017)

In the Chem/Physics interview I was asked to solve a mechanics problem and one related to electric …

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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.