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.

Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Somerville (2021)

My written work was actually not looked at once. In the first two interviews, at Somerville, resour…

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Medicine

Jesus (2021)

My interviews were conducted online using Microsoft teams. I chose to do this at my home however if…

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Music

Somerville (2021)

Somerville: When I got sent my pre-interview materials this was on a Teams call with other student …

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Classics

Jesus (2021)

First (in my Classics interview), the tutors and I introduced ourselves to one another, followed by…

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Classics and English

Wadham (2021)

My first interview was my worst one. I was given a historical report about a territory in Ancient R…

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Earth Sciences (Geology)

Worcester (2021)

My interview was online so I never went down to Oxford and sat in a room with interviewers, which I…

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