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.

Classics

St Hugh's (2017)

Interview 1 - philosophy: We were taken to a separate room and given a sheet of different questions…

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History

St Hugh's (2018)

Interview 1: The interview was largely based on my personal statement. In general I talked about th…

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Mathematics and Statistics

St Hugh's (2015)

My 3 interviews in my main college were all quite similar. Most of them got straight in to the math…

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Mathematics

St Hugh's (2018)

My first interview started with a general question about my main interests within maths, and we tal…

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History and Politics

St Hugh's (2019)

In my history interview I was interviewed by four people, so the idea of that was quite intimidatin…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hugh's (2018)

My interviews all had a sort of ‘warm-up’ question, which was catered around my personal statement/…

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