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.

History

St Hugh's (2018)

Interview 1: The interview was largely based on my personal statement. In general I talked about th…

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Classics

Trinity (2013)

My interviews were mostly either literature or philosophy based. For literature ones, I was usually…

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Classics

Oriel (2018)

In my first interview, I was given a poem beforehand to read and make notes on, and then discussed …

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Classics

Merton (2018)

We had a wide ranging discussion of classical love poetry, focusing on ideas originally proposed in…

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Classics

Brasenose (2015)

Interview 1, at the Classics faculty, 2 interviewers: I was asked how I found the CAT, given a shee…

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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.