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.

Medicine

Merton (2017)

My first interview was quite stressful, I didn’t know what to expect and didn’t have a clue what th…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Lady Margaret Hall (2018)

In my first interview, I had a 30 minute pre-reading which was on a scientific article about an exp…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

The Queen's (2018)

We discussed the pre-reading provided, and some pro and con arguments surrounding it, as well as in…

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Philosophy and Modern Languages

Somerville (2018)

For French: I was asked to analyse an English poem, read it aloud, and discuss context and themes a…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

St Hilda's (2018)

I was given a source and asked to compare two different ancient societies described in it. In the s…

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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.