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.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Somerville (2016)

Philosophy and economics were in the same interview. I was given some pre-reading for both: for eco…

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Mathematics

Brasenose (2018)

The questions were mostly about graph sketching and equation solving. There were some small bits of…

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Biochemistry

Merton (2017)

Both interviews asked me about why I wanted to study Biochemistry. From this they asked me a questi…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Wadham (2014)

For my first interview, I had to come about 20 minutes early to read a text on ancient epigraphics …

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Mathematics and Statistics

St Catherine's (2017)

At the beginning of the interviews, the tutors asked me about something that was in my personal sta…

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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.