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 (2015)

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

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History

Wadham (2017)

In my first interview, we discussed my piece of submitted written work. I was in a room with two tu…

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Economics and Management

Brasenose (2015)

Both my interviews had the same format: We spent ten minutes on management, discussing a news artic…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Corpus Christi (2016)

There was a general discussion to start with, covering a few specific parts of my personal statemen…

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Mathematics and Statistics

St Hugh's (2015)

My 3 interviews in my main college were all quite similar. Most of them got straight in to the math…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

University (2016)

Politics - I was given a page of reading an hour before the interview. The interview involved discu…

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