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.

Modern Languages

Brasenose (2018)

We spoke about pre-prepared text (for Modern Languages you are given a poem and asked to analyse it…

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Modern Languages and Linguistics

The Queen's (2018)

The interview was a fantastic experience, not so much involving any targeted questions expecting te…

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Physics

Pembroke (2017)

We had a maths and a physics interview at Pembroke (although both interviews contained elements of …

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Chemistry

The Queen's (2018)

I was really nervous in my first interview. The tutors were really nice but they still felt quite i…

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Modern Languages

St Anne's (2018)

I had a separate French interview and a German interview. For German I was brought into a preparati…

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Medicine

St Hilda's (2015)

We spoke about basic science - they gave me problems / questions to work through, and it was kind o…

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