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.

Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

Worcester (2016)

In my psychology interview, I was given a document before to read which was about an experiment, wh…

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Modern Languages

The Queen's (2017)

Each of my interviews (four in total - one for each language at two different colleges) followed a …

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Modern Languages

Lincoln (2016)

The interviews consisted of a discussion of personal statement reading, grammar and oral exercises,…

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Psychology (Experimental)

St Anne's (2018)

Interview questions and themes: All three interviews were centred around interpreting scientific da…

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Modern Languages

Balliol (2015)

My first interview was with my language tutor and was personal statement focused; we spoke in Engli…

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Engineering Science

Trinity (2012)

In my first interview, we discussed my personal statement. Then I did some maths questions on the w…

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