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.

Mathematics

Trinity (2017)

They didn’t ask about personal statement beyond an initial icebreaker of like “oh this is interesti…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Merton (2018)

For the philosophy interview I was asked about a subject I was interested in and we talked about th…

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Law

St Edmund Hall (2016)

1st interview: I was given 1 question about my A levels. There was an exercise about applying ficti…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hugh's (2018)

My interviews all had a sort of ‘warm-up’ question, which was catered around my personal statement/…

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Classics

Christ Church (2017)

I had one philosophy interview- I was given a prompt about a concept, which we discussed. I had thr…

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Classics

University (2016)

In my first interview, we talked exclusively about things from my personal statement. In the second…

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