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.

Law

Keble (2021)

I had four interviews at two different colleges. There were two distinct types of interview at both…

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Classics (3 years)

Magdalene (2020)

In the first, we stuck to the content they gave me to look at (a piece of Latin literature). I was …

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Mathematics

Corpus Christi (2021)

So, each interview had two interviewers, each with 15 minutes to ask you maths questions. They grad…

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Modern Languages and Linguistics

Lady Margaret Hall (2021)

I’m not going to lie and say that I relaxed into my German interview, because I didn’t entirely, bu…

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History

Somerville (2020)

They definitely stuck to the themes in personal statement and submitted written work for the majori…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St John's (2019)

For my College interview, the questions were quite broad, but still seemed to be focussed on my aca…

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