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

St Hilda's (2017)

For linguistics I was given a problem sheet, which I filled out, and then was quizzed on my answers…

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Physics

Keble (2018)

The interviews were all were all on technical subject questions, apart from one question at the beg…

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Modern Languages and Linguistics

Somerville (2018)

The atmosphere was relatively formal: 2 interviewers sat opposite me for all the interviews. For my…

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Chemistry

University (2016)

The tutorswent into the interview almost as though it was a tutorial. They presented me with someth…

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Chemistry

Jesus (2016)

There were three interviews with similar structure. In one there was a choice of topics and this le…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

St Anne's (2018)

1st interview: I had to read either and article or a poem, then discuss it during the interview. I …

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