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.

Human Sciences

Magdalen (2017)

In my first interview they asked me some basic evolution questions they knew I’d have studied at A-…

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Medicine

Merton (2017)

The first four interviews were very scientifically focused. There was only a brief mention of my pe…

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History and Economics

St Hilda's (2018)

History: I was sat at a table opposite 2 academics, who took it in terms asking questions and takin…

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Economics and Management

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

Economics interview - I was given a problem to look at for 15 minutes before we went in. Then the f…

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Law

Worcester (2018)

The first interview innvolved prereading a statute, then a whole interview of discussing the statut…

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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.