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.

Modern Languages and Linguistics

Christ Church (2018)

Neither interview mentioned my personal statement. My first interview focused quite a lot on how I …

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Classics

Trinity (2018)

I got given an extract beforehand and had to analyse it under exam conditions. Half the interview w…

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European and Middle Eastern Languages

Wadham (2015)

I had interviews for both the German and Arabic side. For Arabic, I had three interviews. Arabic is…

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Geography

St John's (2017)

There was one interview for physical geography and one for human geography. Both involved some foll…

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Chemistry

Christ Church (2018)

I was not asked about my personal statement in any of the interviews, although some of the other ch…

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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.