Interview Insights: Oxford

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.

Modern Languages

The Queen's (2018)

Before each interview I was given a poem and 30 minutes to read through and annotate it. For the fi…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Merton (2018)

I had three interviews for each of the subjects (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). For the Polit…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hilda's (2017)

My first interview was for Politics. We discussed the possible causes of a certain phenomenon in re…

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Physics

Somerville (2018)

My first interview had one older professor and two PhD students, I think. They each had just one qu…

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Classics and English

The Queen's (2018)

My first interview was a literature interview for Classics. I found the tutors in my first intervie…

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Physics

St Hilda's (2017)

My interviews were quite relaxed actually. The interviews were specific to maths and/or physics. My…

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