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

The Queen's (2017)

Politics - I was given an excerpt about political philosophy, and we had a discussion of what norms…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Oriel (2017)

My personal statement was not discussed at all. Each interview was prefaced by a 20-30 minute prepa…

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Medicine

St Catherine's (2016)

I was given some logical challenges, some mental maths, and some basic biology and chemistry questi…

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Chemistry

University (2016)

The tutorswent into the interview almost as though it was a tutorial. They presented me with someth…

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History

Wadham (2017)

In my first interview, we discussed my piece of submitted written work. I was in a room with two tu…

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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.