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.

Mathematics

St Edmund Hall (2020)

There was no personal statement discussion at all. In one interview, I was asked to sketch a few gr…

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Mathematics

Lady Margaret Hall (2020)

I was asked brief questions about why Oxford/ why Maths, then it was just solving maths problems wi…

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Mathematics

Somerville (2019)

The interviews were all of the same form: quick 2 minute question to just start off, either persona…

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Mathematics

Keble (2021)

With maths I was not asked about my personal statement at all or really about myself (I was asked w…

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Mathematics

Corpus Christi (2021)

So, each interview had two interviewers, each with 15 minutes to ask you maths questions. They grad…

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Mathematics

St Hugh's (2022)

As it was on Teams, I connected to an online whiteboard and they put a question up and asked me to …

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