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.

Geography

St Hilda's (2016)

I was encouraged to interact with a few different sources (texts and images mainly), giving descrip…

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English Language and Literature

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

My first interview was based on my personal statement - I wasn’t asked anything about the written w…

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History and Modern Languages

St John's (2017)

For French, I was asked to read, translate and answer comprehension-based questions on a French tex…

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History

Balliol (2013)

In my first interview, we talked about the written work I had sent in. For me, this was an essay on…

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English Language and Literature

Worcester (2018)

For both my interviews I had to read something in an assigned room 10 minutes beforehand (a prose 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.