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.

Biomedical Sciences

St Hugh's (2016)

All interviews were similar, with some questions about the personal statement first. Then there wer…

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Physics

Somerville (2018)

All 3 interviews were entirely technical, from the minute I got in there the questions were all pro…

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Modern Languages

The Queen's (2017)

My first interview began with a discussion about several books mentioned on my personal statement b…

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Modern Languages and Linguistics

Worcester (2017)

German 1: I was given 15 minutes to look over a poem (with no dictionary). When I went into the int…

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Chemistry

New (2017)

All my interviews were pretty much just problem sheets (just went through questions as the tutor p…

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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.