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.

Economics and Management

Brasenose (2015)

Both my interviews had the same format: We spent ten minutes on management, discussing a news artic…

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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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Law

Worcester (2017)

We discussed a passage of text that I was given (in interview one, before; and in interview 2, duri…

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Law

Brasenose (2018)

Both my interviews were based entirely on the 30 minutes of pre-reading I had to do before each int…

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Mathematics and Statistics

St Hugh's (2015)

My 3 interviews in my main college were all quite similar. Most of them got straight in to the math…

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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.