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

Worcester (2017)

In my first interview, I was asked a little about the books I had written about on my personal stat…

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Human Sciences

St Hugh's (2017)

I was asked general questions at the start, and then in all of my interviews I was given a diagram …

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Biochemistry

Hertford (2018)

1st interview: I was given 30 minutes to read an article and highlight the top 5 things in it. For …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St John's (2017)

There were 2 interviews. One was Philosophy and Politics. The other was Economics and Politics. Eac…

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Modern Languages and Linguistics

St Hilda's (2015)

In both my German interviews I had to discuss the written text they’d provided me with shortly befo…

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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.