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.

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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Computer Science

Churchill (2018)

I was asked multiple questions on two different topics. I had covered the first one at school, but …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Selwyn (2017)

My first interview was a general interview: the interviews starting by asking me about Selwyn and C…

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Music

Queens' (2016)

We talked a lot about the canon and particular composers, as well as issues such as time management…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Girton (2017)

In the first interview, they gave me some material in French and ten minutes to read it. Then they …

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