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

Hertford (2015)

Philosophy: the interview focused on a problem sheet we did a day before in timed conditions. It wa…

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Physics

The Queen's (2018)

The interview process was very academic in nature. For physics, I had three interviews. The first t…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Mansfield (2017)

In my Politics and Philosophy interviews, there was an emphasis on basic understanding of logic - I…

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Earth Sciences (Geology)

St Edmund Hall (2016)

For both of my interviews, I was nervous, but I didn't expect to get in, so I also felt quite relax…

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History

Balliol (2016)

I had one interview on source analysis and another on my written work and personal statement. The s…

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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.