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

Somerville (2016)

Most of the interviews started with a little personal statement discussion. But then we would go pr…

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History and English

Jesus (2017)

In my two interviews at Jesus College there was a subject tutor from each department in both interv…

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Mathematics and Computer Science

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

The interviews were almost entirely unseen questions on maths and computer science topics. A couple…

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Law

Oriel (2018)

Both interviews were largely based on the 45-minute pre-reading beforehand. For the first interview…

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Materials Science

Mansfield (2017)

In the first interview, I had maths and physics based problems to solve. I had paper and a pen to w…

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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.