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.

Chemistry

Somerville (2018)

The first interview was inorganic chemistry - we talked about polymers and type of inorganic compou…

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Chemistry

University (2016)

The tutorswent into the interview almost as though it was a tutorial. They presented me with someth…

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Chemistry

Jesus (2016)

There were three interviews with similar structure. In one there was a choice of topics and this le…

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Chemistry

The Queen's (2018)

I was really nervous in my first interview. The tutors were really nice but they still felt quite i…

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Chemistry

St Catherine's (2019)

For the first interview I was quite nervous but less than I expected as I had been talking to other…

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Chemistry

Lincoln (2020)

For both of my interviews, as they were online, I had 10 minutes before to talk to some students al…

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