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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

Emmanuel (2015)

Both my interviews were challenging but that's not necessarily a bad thing as they obviously think …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Sidney Sussex (2016)

We discussed class in modern Britain and its influences on the education system, especially compreh…

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English

Clare (2014)

For my first interview I was given 5-10 minutes to look at the verse prologue of a play (about 30-4…

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History

Emmanuel (2016)

The personal statement interview was tricky - a few times one interviewer kept asking me the same q…

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Law

Pembroke (2016)

The general interview was with one interviewer who didn’t do my subject. This focused on my persona…

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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.