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.

Veterinary Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Science interview: started off with a quite specific skeleton question which became more broad talk…

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Maths

Pembroke (2016)

Covered a range of topics starting with standard A-level ideas and then branching out. Felt challen…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Pembroke (2016)

Pembroke (with DoS) - Discussed the concept of religion & its relationship with/difference to i…

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History

Clare (2015)

The first interview lasted about 20-25 minutes, and they explained that they were first going to as…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Sidney Sussex (2017)

Both of my interviews were very relaxed and to me felt like more of a guided debate, in which I was…

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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.