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.

History and Politics

Wadham (2016)

In the history interviews there were questions on sources and my areas of focus from my personal st…

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History and Politics

The Queen's (2018)

The first interview was based on my written work, whilst the second interview had two parts to it- …

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Medicine

Trinity (2016)

My first interview was based on academics. We spoke about the control of blood pH and equilibrium. …

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Mathematics

Oriel (2017)

All my interviews at both colleges (New and St Hugh's) were purely academic, with no small talk bes…

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Materials Science

St Catherine's (2017)

My first interview began with many personal statement oriented questions to ease me in. Then over t…

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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.