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.

Chemistry

St Edmund Hall (2017)

I was asked about why I applied to Oxford and why I chose chemistry. I was also given problem sheet…

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Chemistry

St Catherine's (2017)

They asked me a variety of questions in no way related to my personal statement. All candidates wer…

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History and Politics

St Hugh's (2019)

In my history interview I was interviewed by four people, so the idea of that was quite intimidatin…

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Modern Languages

Exeter (2017)

I had 2 interviews for Italian, one for German, and one for modern languages in general. In the lan…

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Modern Languages

Jesus (2016)

1st interview - I prepared notes on a poem in English and a translation of Shakespeare; there was a…

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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.