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.

Biomedical Sciences

St Hugh's (2016)

All interviews were similar, with some questions about the personal statement first. Then there wer…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

St Hugh's (2018)

All three of my interviews were very different. During my first interview for linguistics, I was te…

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Physics

St Hugh's (2017)

Of my three interviews, each followed a slightly different format. The first was a series of quick-…

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Engineering Science

St Hugh's (2019)

I had mentioned my interest in the energy sector in engineering. Consecutively, I was shown an inte…

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Mathematics and Computer Science

St Hugh's (2019)

My first interview (maths) was the hardest with some very difficult algebraic topic, I felt I strug…

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Chemistry

St Hugh's (2019)

My first interview was entirely organic based and included rationalising acidities of different com…

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