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.

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Christ's (2015)

The first interview with the DoS: I was very nervous but I also felt quite "prepared" because I'd m…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hilda's (2017)

My first interview was for Politics. We discussed the possible causes of a certain phenomenon in re…

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Physics

Somerville (2018)

My first interview had one older professor and two PhD students, I think. They each had just one qu…

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Medicine

Gonville & Caius (2016)

My first interview was the 'medicine' interview. This involved a brief discussion of my personal st…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Clare (2015)

In the first interview there was a broad range of questions covering various topics we learnt at th…

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Physics

St Hilda's (2017)

My interviews were quite relaxed actually. The interviews were specific to maths and/or physics. My…

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