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.

Engineering

Sidney Sussex (2016)

The first interview focused on discussing the passage and my workings on the questions, and one or …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first couple of questions asked were fairly easy - they were based on my personal statement, an…

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Veterinary Medicine

Fitzwilliam (2017)

I was asked to interpret a graph, asked general questions based on A level biology/chemistry. Felt…

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Law

Robinson (2017)

The atmosphere of the interviews was very relaxed: the interviewers made it clear they weren't expe…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Emmanuel (2014)

Interview 1 (General):They first described the format of the interview we discussed my motivations …

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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.