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.

Law

University (2014)

My first interview had surprisingly little discussion on why I chose to cross the sea to study a fo…

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Human Sciences

Wadham (2016)

My two interviews were very different to each other. The first one was much more formal and they di…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Wadham (2016)

(This was for Chinese, by the way.) For my first interview, I was given half an hour beforehand to …

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Law

Exeter (2017)

In both interviews I got given a short passage with some questions and 30 minutes to prepare; both …

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Mathematics

Worcester (2017)

I was given maths questions and asked to work through them, explaining my thought process. Some I w…

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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.