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.

Human, Social and Political Science

Girton (2018)

I found it reassuring that at the start of both interviews my interviewers told me that they were f…

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Biomedical Sciences

Keble (2017)

In my first interview, they began by asking me a few warm up questions, then gave me a graph. They …

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Economics

Selwyn (2016)

Very mathematical for the most part; we discussed a graph and a few questions on probability. The s…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Newnham (2017)

There was very little discussion of personal statement aside from a quick query. Each question was …

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Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Unusual for a medical interview - purely science based. No ‘soft skills’ questions (why do you want…

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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.