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.

Computer Science

Downing (2014)

Logic puzzles, basic efficiency analysis, understanding of code (in a language I said I could do)

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Classics (4 years)

Downing (2017)

In my first interview we discussed the poem that I had been given to read through (I had had half a…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2015)

I can’t really remember the questions. I came out of my Spanish (post A-level) interview in a cold …

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Geography

Emmanuel (2015)

Interview 1: Was given a journal article to read critically 1 month before interview. Had to discus…

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English

Murray Edwards (2016)

Questions mainly from personal statement, from essays I submitted and from an unseen text of poetry.

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Engineering

Murray Edwards (2014)

Physics interview was 50% based on content I'd already covered, but stretching the knowledge I alre…

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