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)

Very academic but the questions were majorly A Level standard. Just there to test how you react und…

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Economics

Emmanuel (2016)

First interview: talked about personal statement and an article on macroeconomy.Second interview: m…

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English

Jesus (2017)

The text and background of the texts - and then what I’d like to do after Uni etc. Can’t remember a…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Selwyn (2016)

In my college interview, we mainly talked about my personal statement, especially a specific book I…

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History Of Art

Clare (2014)

Most of the things which came up were in my personal statement, though I did have a bit of an unexp…

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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.