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.

Modern Languages

Oriel (2018)

Easier-to-answer questions were asked at the beginning to help students ease into the interview - e…

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English Language and Literature

St Anne's (2017)

In one interview I was given a piece of prose to analyse, 10 minutes before entering the room, and …

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Medicine

The Queen's (2017)

Each interview was slightly different, but were all based on chatting about questions, and never ar…

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Medicine

St Hugh's (2018)

My interviews had very little personal statement discussion, quite a few general questions with a f…

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Biochemistry

Brasenose (2018)

Both my interviews involved a number of problem sheets (some with pictures of biological processes …

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History

Somerville (2018)

My first interview was half on my personal statement and half on the written work I had sent in. Th…

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