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

Worcester (2018)

Interview 1: The interview began with being asked to tell the 2 interviewers an intellectual questi…

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Classics and English

Wadham (2015)

For my Classics interviews, we talked about texts I was studying for A level, and how they related …

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Classics and English

St Anne's (2017)

One interview was on an unseen English passage and a discussion of my personal statement. The secon…

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Classics and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Brasenose (2018)

In the first interview they asked some questions relevant to things I had mentioned in my personal …

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Biology

Wadham (2016)

All of my interviews started with something broadly related to my personal statement but mostly not…

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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.