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.

English Language and Literature

Corpus Christi (2013)

I had two interviews for English Language and Literature. For my first I was taken into a secluded …

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Engineering Science

St Edmund Hall (2016)

St Edmund Hall interview: There were two interviewers: one would talk and the other would take note…

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Law

Brasenose (2018)

Before each interview, I was given a case file written by a senior judge to read in 30 minutes. The…

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English Language and Literature

Somerville (2018)

In both interviews I was given 10 minutes beforehand to read through some unseen pieces of literatu…

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Engineering Science

Trinity (2012)

In my first interview, we discussed my personal statement. Then I did some maths questions on the w…

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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.