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.

Economics

Sidney Sussex (2017)

In my first interview, we discussed production and productivity (including how Brexit could have an…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2014)

My first interview was about half an hour long and mainly Chemistry-based. It started off quite sim…

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History

Sidney Sussex (2015)

The first interview was source analysis. We worked through the first source: how to identify it, wh…

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Classics

Christ Church (2017)

I had one philosophy interview- I was given a prompt about a concept, which we discussed. I had thr…

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English

Robinson (2018)

Although this maybe a surprise to some, I actually enjoyed the whole interview process. I was obvio…

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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.