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.

Natural Sciences (Biological)

Robinson (2016)

Felt very welcome, staff were friendly and smiley. Was asked about DNA, enzymes (when in doubt - an…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Christ's (2017)

In Spanish we discussed a text I read 10 minutes before the interview and my thoughts on it. We wen…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Sidney Sussex (2017)

Some mention of my personal statement and then lots of academics questions drawn from that and A le…

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Medicine

King's (2014)

On the whole, the interviewers were welcoming and did the best they could in order to make me feel …

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Law

St Edmund Hall (2016)

1st interview: I was given 1 question about my A levels. There was an exercise about applying ficti…

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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.