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.

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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English Language and Literature

Wadham (2017)

For my first interview I was given a poem 5 minutes before it and asked to analyse it. I wrote note…

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Chemistry

St Catherine's (2018)

There were no personal questions whatsoever; each interview consisted of 10 minutes with each of th…

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Biochemistry

Oriel (2018)

At my first interview we had 15 minutes beforehand to read an article and write a paragraph summary…

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History of Art

Christ Church (2018)

Top tip! On the Oxford website you can look up past interview questions that are no longer used to …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hilda's (2016)

Interview 1 (Philosophy & Economics): This started with a few questions about my background and…

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