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.

Chemistry

St Hugh's (2019)

My first interview was entirely organic based and included rationalising acidities of different com…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Downing (2019)

I was asked a few questions based on my personal statement, and then just general discussions about…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Brasenose (2016)

A lot of what I was asked in my interview related to new information I was given during the intervi…

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Earth Sciences (Geology)

St Edmund Hall (2020)

My interviews were online because of COVID. The interviewers were really friendly and we started wi…

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Classics

The Queen's (2019)

Two different interviews. First was a literature and language interview. The second was a philosoph…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Downing (2019)

In my first interview, I was asked a Chemistry related question. I was asked questions about a mole…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.