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 (Experimental)

St Catherine's (2015)

In my first interview I was asked about two diagrams, one relating to biology and the other to expe…

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Physics

St Hugh's (2017)

Of my three interviews, each followed a slightly different format. The first was a series of quick-…

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Materials Science

St Edmund Hall (2017)

My first interview was predominantly based around sketching a graph, followed by some estimation qu…

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Modern Languages and Linguistics

Merton (2017)

French: I was given 30 minutes of prep time on an English poem beforehand. I then went into the int…

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History

The Queen's (2017)

One of my interviews was based on my written work, which my tutor used as a starting point to delve…

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History

Somerville (2015)

My first interview was about my personal statement and the ideas that I had spoken about there; wha…

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