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.

Mathematics

Lady Margaret Hall (2020)

I was asked brief questions about why Oxford/ why Maths, then it was just solving maths problems wi…

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Law

St John's (2020)

The first interview was mainly based on my personal statement and the lectures, books or articles I…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Pembroke (2019)

Interview 1 - Russian (ab initio): I had 30 minutes preparation time with a Russian text that had b…

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Geography

St Hilda's (2019)

My Human Geography interview started with more questions related to my school reference, which incl…

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Geography

Hertford (2020)

Both my interviews were similar. You could not prepare for either in anyway. The first involved loo…

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History

St Edmund Hall (2020)

Almost my entire interview, aside from introductions, was spent discussing the History essay that I…

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