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

Brasenose (2018)

The questions were mostly about graph sketching and equation solving. There were some small bits of…

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Biochemistry

Merton (2017)

Both interviews asked me about why I wanted to study Biochemistry. From this they asked me a questi…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Wadham (2014)

For my first interview, I had to come about 20 minutes early to read a text on ancient epigraphics …

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Mathematics and Statistics

St Catherine's (2017)

At the beginning of the interviews, the tutors asked me about something that was in my personal sta…

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Modern Languages

Wadham (2017)

First interview: I was given a poem to look at for 30 minutes in a room with lots of other people d…

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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.