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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2016)

The focus in both seemed to be on my motivation for choosing the particular languages, and discussi…

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English

Emmanuel (2015)

At the first interview we went through various aspects of my personal statement and discussed issue…

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History

Emmanuel (2016)

First was 30 minutes long, it was on reading that we’d been given a couple of weeks earlier. They p…

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Classics (4 years)

Emmanuel (2014)

In my first interview I had to verbally translate sections of a passage of Latin I had been given a…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Sidney Sussex (2013)

In the academic interview we discussed the historical accuracy of sources and attempted to translat…

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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.