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.

English

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first interview began with discussing the unseen text and moved onto discussing one of the piec…

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Law

Fitzwilliam (2017)

The ‘general’ interview was just as Law focused as the ‘Law’ interview. In the general interview, w…

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History

King's (2015)

I was delivered to my interview by a history student. The first started with a simple question abou…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Selwyn (2015)

The first, personal and chemical interview covered a bit about my work experience and personal stat…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Robinson (2017)

The text based interview was subject focused, led by two sociology professors. The passage I had be…

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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.