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 Catherine's (2017)

There was no discussion of my personal statement or of me generally. Each interview was with two tu…

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Philosophy and Modern Languages

Keble (2018)

For my languages interview, we had to prepare a poem 30 minutes before the exam and think about it …

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Physics

The Queen's (2018)

The interview process was very academic in nature. For physics, I had three interviews. The first t…

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Chemistry

Somerville (2018)

The first interview was inorganic chemistry - we talked about polymers and type of inorganic compou…

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Modern Languages

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

I was given two poems beforehand and was asked to talk through and translate (one was in German). B…

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Physics

Jesus (2017)

The interviews were purely academic: physics questions were asked until one was found in which I st…

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