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

Exeter (2016)

My first interview was split into 10 minutes on Economics and 10 minutes on Politics. For Economics…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Corpus Christi (2016)

There was a general discussion to start with, covering a few specific parts of my personal statemen…

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Classics

Wadham (2015)

I applied for Classics course II (Classics with no prior ancient languages), which means that on to…

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History of Art

Christ Church (2018)

Top tip! On the Oxford website you can look up past interview questions that are no longer used to …

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Biochemistry

St John's (2018)

I was asked about amino acids, entropy, hydrophobic molecules, genetic pedigree diagrams, why I wan…

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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.