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.

Classics

St Hugh's (2017)

Interview 1 - philosophy: We were taken to a separate room and given a sheet of different questions…

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Classics and Modern Languages

Lady Margaret Hall (2015)

French - I was given a French short story and news article the night before and an English poem jus…

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Classics

Jesus (2018)

I was given a poem with questions on it before the interview. I thought about the questions before …

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Classics

Christ Church (2017)

I was asked about what texts I had read, and we had some discussion around that. I was also asked p…

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Classics

Worcester (2016)

In my first interview (a general discussion one) the first thing I was asked was what I wanted to t…

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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.