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.

Mathematics

Trinity (2017)

They didn’t ask about personal statement beyond an initial icebreaker of like “oh this is interesti…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Somerville (2018)

I had one politics and philosophy interview, with 20 minutes pre reading before hand. They asked me…

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Biochemistry

Lady Margaret Hall (2016)

The interview was similar to a tutorial- a concept was introduced and I had to discuss potential an…

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Biochemistry

Wadham (2018)

My first interview, at Wadham College, started with a question about something I mentioned on my pe…

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History and Economics

Balliol (2013)

In my history interview, the discussion was centred on the essay I had sent in as an example of my …

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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.