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

Wadham (2016)

In my first interview, there were 2 interviewers. I was given an unseen extract from a Latin poem. …

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Law

Christ Church (2018)

The first interview began with two questions from my personal statement. They were straightforward …

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Classics

Wadham (2015)

I applied for Classics course II (Classics with no prior ancient languages), which means that on to…

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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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Materials Science

The Queen's (2016)

In one of my interviews there was nothing related to my personal statement at all, and it was purel…

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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.