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

Newnham (2015)

In the first interview, we I was asked difficult questions about balancing interests within society…

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Mathematics

Trinity (2017)

They didn’t ask about personal statement beyond an initial icebreaker of like “oh this is interesti…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Newnham (2017)

We went through a few experiments, looked at graphs, and talked about a few items on my personal st…

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Classics (4 years)

Clare (2014)

The 'academic' interview at Clare focused on my responses in the written tests and on the content o…

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Maths (with Physics)

Peterhouse (2015)

Maths Interview 1: We discussed a mechanics question that was quite complicated but based on A leve…

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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.