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.

Human Sciences

St Hugh's (2017)

Most interviews followed the same format, there were 2 people asking me questions and sometimes a t…

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English Language and Literature

Merton (2017)

Of the two interviews in my college, one was largely personal-statement based, and the other was fo…

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English and Modern Languages

St Hilda's (2014)

For my English interview, my tutors started off by handing me a poem and reading it aloud. We discu…

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English Language and Literature

The Queen's (2015)

Interview 1: I was given two modernist poems 20 minutes before the interview and could annotate the…

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Classics

Magdalen (2017)

I did in each a combination of two or three of philosophy, literature (the only one that was really…

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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.