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.

Physics

Jesus (2015)

1st interview: Maths based interview. After introductions, I was asked an opening maths questions a…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Worcester (2016)

In my first interview, I had some pre-reading about a couple of experiments, and the sheet included…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

St Hugh's (2018)

All three of my interviews were very different. During my first interview for linguistics, I was te…

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Computer Science and Philosophy

St Anne's (2018)

I had both Maths (4) and Philosophy (2) interviews. In the Maths interviews I got some problems and…

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Philosophy and Modern Languages

Exeter (2017)

Interview 1 (French): We talked about a poem I’d been given to read 30 minutes before the interview…

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History

Wadham (2017)

One interview was on the essay that I submitted as part of the process, and asking me to expand on …

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