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 Sciences

St Catherine's (2016)

I was asked about my motivations for studying the course. Then I was given mainly hypothetical ques…

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2018)

In both interviews I had to speak about a text I'd been given 20 minutes before. Both texts were po…

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English Language and Literature

St Peter's (2017)

For both interviews I was asked to arrive 20 minutes early to analyse an unseen poem. Each intervie…

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Biology

St John's (2017)

My first interview started with a quick chat about a school project I mentioned in my personal stat…

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Physics

Magdalen (2016)

Almost all of the questions I was asked were physics-related. There were 2 questions across 3 inter…

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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.