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.

Materials Science

Mansfield (2017)

In my first interview they asked me about the core science I had written about in my personal state…

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Mathematics and Philosophy

New (2018)

In the maths interviews, I was given a variety of questions and asked to talk my way through them. …

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History

Somerville (2018)

The first interview was a discussion of both my submitted written work and areas of my personal sta…

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Human Sciences

St John's (2017)

In my first interview I had three people interviewing me, and each interviewer had a different spec…

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Mathematics

Merton (2018)

I was only really given maths questions in all four of the interviews. In my first interview, I wa…

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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.