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.

Engineering

Pembroke (2015)

The first interview was for going over the questions in the maths and science test - there were too…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Newnham (2018)

In my first interview, I was asked to discuss a point made on my personal statement, which I immedi…

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Medicine

Gonville & Caius (2017)

The first interview was fairly philosophical in nature and we discussed subjects such as the aborti…

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Archaeology

Newnham (2018)

In my first interview, we spoke about the intersections between classics and archaeology. We spoke …

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History

Emmanuel (2017)

One interview was personal statement based, but largely ended up centering around a shared area of …

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History

Emmanuel (2017)

The first interview was source based. The source had been sent to us in advance and I had prepared …

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.