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

Oriel (2017)

My personal statement was not discussed at all. Each interview was prefaced by a 20-30 minute prepa…

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Medicine

St Catherine's (2016)

I was given some logical challenges, some mental maths, and some basic biology and chemistry questi…

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Chemistry

University (2016)

The tutorswent into the interview almost as though it was a tutorial. They presented me with someth…

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History

Wadham (2017)

In my first interview, we discussed my piece of submitted written work. I was in a room with two tu…

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History and Politics

Christ Church (2018)

My first interview was a politics interview, focusing on set questions the interviewers had. The fi…

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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.