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.

Linguistics

Christ's (2016)

The first interview was very general and mostly focused around my personal statement. Since the int…

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Law

King's (2015)

We discussed general controversial topics (you can bring in topics but be careful not to steer the …

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Christ's (2016)

We discussed entropy and enthalpy for the chem questions. For the biology questions, we discussed …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Downing (2014)

In both interviews we discussed the contents of the text in the target language.There was also a gr…

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History and Economics

Balliol (2013)

In my history interview, the discussion was centred on the essay I had sent in as an example of my …

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Engineering

Murray Edwards (2014)

Physics interview was 50% based on content I'd already covered, but stretching the knowledge I alre…

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