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.

Mathematics

St John's (2017)

Each interview started with a fairly simple maths question, which was then developed into harder qu…

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English Language and Literature

Oriel (2014)

My first interview was half a discussion on an unknown poem, which I had a bit of time to read and …

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Geography

Jesus (2017)

There was a main tutor and a postgrad student in there. Questions tended to be on niche topics but …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Peter's (2017)

In the politics and philosophy interview (we only found out it was both when we entered the room), …

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Geography

Christ Church (2018)

Both interviews split into three. The first section was an introduction, so basic ‘ice-breaker’ que…

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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.