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.

English Language and Literature

Somerville (2018)

The tutors started by asking me what I had read over the summer, what I had enjoyed and not, etc. W…

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Biochemistry

Brasenose (2018)

The interviews were completely science based. One included a variety of different questions. The ot…

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Mathematics and Computer Science

St Catherine's (2018)

It was Maths and Computer Science, so the questions were all technical. The first interview seemed …

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Chemistry

Magdalen (2016)

All the questions were academic questions: I was asked a few easy introductory questions to settle …

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Wadham (2016)

For my first interview, I was given half an hour beforehand to look at a poem or an article (both w…

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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.