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.

Natural Sciences (Physical)

Clare (2017)

My first interview was on chemistry, and started up with a nice subjective warmup question which th…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Jesus (2019)

My first interview began with settler questions about how I found my time in Oxford so far, about t…

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Biology

St Catherine's (2019)

The interviews range in a variety of topics, from genetics (my favourite) and statistics in my firs…

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Biology

Merton (2019)

A practical question about a seed pod, interpreting a graph of seabirds, and looking at a phylogene…

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Chemistry

Worcester (2019)

In my first interview, there was a question on periodic trends and structures of various molecules.…

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Chemistry

Worcester (2019)

In the first interview I had 2 interviewers and was asked questions on A level chemistry topics suc…

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