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.

Chemistry

Somerville (2018)

First interview was inorganic chemistry - we talked about polymers and type of inorganic compound a…

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Modern Languages and Linguistics

Somerville (2018)

The atmosphere was relatively formal: 2 interviewers sat opposite me for all the interviews.For my …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Catherine's (2018)

There was no theme. I had an economics interview starting with a general question slightly related …

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Mathematics and Philosophy

Balliol (2017)

I was very nervous going in but all the tutors were very relaxed - in one philosophy interview he w…

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Modern Languages

Oriel (2018)

Easier-to-answer questions were asked at the beginning to help students ease into the interview - e…

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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.