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

Wadham (2016)

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

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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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Classics

Wadham (2018)

In one interview I was given a piece of Latin to translate (I'm a 1b student). Dont worry about not…

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Classics

Jesus (2019)

My very first interview was at the Classics Faculty, it was a 20-minute-long language interview: Fi…

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Classics

St Hilda's (2018)

My first interview was a discussion of an unseen passage (English translation provided) and a philo…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.