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

St Peter's (2016)

First interview: I was given article to read before and then asked to summarise it in five points. …

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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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Biochemistry

Brasenose (2018)

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

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Biochemistry

St John's (2018)

In both interviews (Biochemistry), they first asked why I wanted to study the subject. Then they as…

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Biochemistry

St John's (2018)

I was asked about amino acids, entropy, hydrophobic molecules, genetic pedigree diagrams, why I wan…

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Biochemistry

Wadham (2018)

My first interview, at Wadham College, started with a question about something I mentioned on my pe…

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