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.

Architecture

Girton (2017)

The essay and drawing tasks are very broad so you can generally approach them by drawing and writin…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Sidney Sussex (2018)

College interview asked specific questions about my personal statement which was enjoyable since I'…

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Music

King's (2017)

The first interview was based around a text, while the second was based around my personal statemen…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Christ's (2017)

My first interview, "ab initio" Italian, started by discussing an English text which I had just spe…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Christ's (2016)

First interview: first half consisted of open-ended questions. I never got any of the answers ‘righ…

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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.