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.

Fine Art

Worcester (2018)

The Fine Art interview was mainly based on your own individual portfolio. Rather than beginning wit…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Worcester (2017)

In my first interview, I was asked a little about the books I had written about on my personal stat…

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Human Sciences

St Hugh's (2017)

I was asked general questions at the start, and then in all of my interviews I was given a diagram …

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Biochemistry

Hertford (2018)

1st interview: I was given 30 minutes to read an article and highlight the top 5 things in it. For …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St John's (2017)

There were 2 interviews. One was Philosophy and Politics. The other was Economics and Politics. Eac…

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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.