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.

Law

Pembroke (2016)

In my first interview I discussed my personal statement with general questions about myself and why…

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Maths

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The interview was based entirely on the exam. First we went through the questions that I had comple…

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Engineering

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Electricity, Gravitational Work Done, Aero.

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Engineering

Pembroke (2017)

It was mostly maths, there was some stats, mechanics, graph sketching, some simple calculus. The ma…

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English

Queens' (2014)

Mostly directed around my personal statement and then an unseen poem and some more questions furthe…

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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.