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.

Geography

St Edmund Hall (2021)

Both interviews started by going through questions about topics I had mentioned in my personal stat…

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History

Robinson (2022)

I had two interviews, one being an extract-based interview and the second being based on my persona…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Somerville (2021)

My written work was actually not looked at once. In the first two interviews, at Somerville, resour…

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Geography

Emmanuel (2021)

The interviews didn't appear to have any theme. Both interviews involved pre-reading, which I was s…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Lucy Cavendish (2022)

The first interview was mostly on a French philosopher I had never heard of (I was given a passage …

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Medicine

Jesus (2021)

My interviews were conducted online using Microsoft teams. I chose to do this at my home however if…

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