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.

Materials Science

St Anne's (2017)

Two interviews started with a discussion about EPQ. One just asked why I wanted to study what I app…

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Human Sciences

Keble (2018)

There were set questions and then I was questioned on my answers, so whilst there was set questions…

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Human Sciences

St John's (2017)

In my 1st interview there were 3 interviewers. The first asked me general questions related to biol…

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Biology

New (2018)

On the whole, I really enjoyed interviews: they were simply interesting discussions on a subject I’…

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History and Politics

Jesus (2017)

For the first interview, it was split into two 10-minute segments. The first 10 minutes was spent 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.