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 and Philosophy

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

For the maths, the topics were approximating integrals for sine and cosine, left-infinite ordinals,…

Read more

Medicine

St Catherine's (2018)

In my first interview we discussed why I wanted to study medicine, as well as my personal statement…

Read more

Law

Brasenose (2018)

Before each interview, I was given a case file written by a senior judge to read in 30 minutes. The…

Read more

History

The Queen's (2017)

Interview one: I was emailed a 30 page source to read the day before my interview. In this intervie…

Read more

Mathematics and Computer Science

Somerville (2018)

Both of my interviews at my first college began with a general warm-up question, one about my gener…

Read more

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

University (2016)

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

Read more

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