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.

Economics and Management

Keble (2022)

Firstly, I was given two maths questions, which I found quite overwhelming. I told the interviewers…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Lady Margaret Hall (2015)

In the psychology interviews I was asked about my personal statement first and what got me interest…

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Classics

University (2016)

In my first interview, we talked exclusively about things from my personal statement. In the second…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

Politics: I was given a newspaper article with questions. I had 20 minutes of preparation time, and…

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Chemistry

St Catherine's (2017)

The interviewers were nice but I was very nervous so I answered questions quickly, giving the wrong…

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Classics

Christ Church (2017)

I had one philosophy interview- I was given a prompt about a concept, which we discussed. I had thr…

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