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.

English

Emmanuel (2019)

My first interview was about an unseen piece of poetry I was given - we spoke about the techniques,…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2017)

Before both interviews I was given a text (one in the target language for my post A Level language …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Newnham (2016)

The interview based on the reading - started with what I though were the main arguments of the arti…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Somerville (2018)

I had one politics and philosophy interview, with 20 minutes pre reading before hand. They asked me…

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Music

Gonville & Caius (2017)

The works given one hour before; books I'd recently been reading; questions about personal statemen…

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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.