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.

Biochemistry

University (2017)

I had a question sheet for one interview, but not for the other. We talked about books I read and g…

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English Language and Literature

Somerville (2018)

The tutors started by asking me what I had read over the summer, what I had enjoyed and not, etc. W…

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Biochemistry

Brasenose (2018)

The interviews were completely science based. One included a variety of different questions. The ot…

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Mathematics and Computer Science

St Catherine's (2018)

It was Maths and Computer Science, so the questions were all technical. The first interview seemed …

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Chemistry

Magdalen (2016)

All the questions were academic questions: I was asked a few easy introductory questions to settle …

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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.