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.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St John's (2017)

My interviews were each split in half, ending with a politics half, and starting in the first inter…

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Biochemistry

St Peter's (2016)

First interview: I was given article to read before and then asked to summarise it in five points. …

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Classics

Wadham (2016)

In my first interview, there were 2 interviewers. I was given an unseen extract from a Latin poem. …

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2016)

In my first interview we discussed a 'modern' unseen passage (a poem) for about ten minutes - we ta…

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Classics

Oriel (2016)

In the first interview, I was asked to discuss a poem given to me 20 minutes before (in English). T…

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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.