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.

Linguistics

Christ's (2016)

The first interview was very general and mostly focused around my personal statement. Since the int…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

St Hilda's (2018)

I was given a source and asked to compare two different ancient societies described in it. In the s…

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English Language and Literature

St John's (2018)

Before every interview, I was given a poem and time to prepare some ideas about it, which then form…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

The Queen's (2017)

I can't remember

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Engineering Science

Oriel (2017)

We talked about why I wanted to study engineering, and I was given a question based off of that. Th…

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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.