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

Corpus Christi (2022)

Being Classics interviews, they touched on the main areas within the subject (literature, history, …

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English Language and Literature

Keble (2022)

My interview process started when I got emailed, a half hour before my interview, two poems to read…

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Mathematics

St Hugh's (2022)

As it was on Teams, I connected to an online whiteboard and they put a question up and asked me to …

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English and Modern Languages

The Queen's (2020)

My first interview was my French interview. The first thing I did when I got into the Teams Meeting…

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History

Somerville (2022)

1. I had a discussion of my personal statement, leading to a discussion of my written work. The que…

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English Language and Literature

Somerville (2022)

We started with some extracts of poems, and discussed them, the second half was about my personal s…

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