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.

Classics

Wadham (2018)

In one interview I was given a piece of Latin to translate (I'm a 1b student). Dont worry about not…

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Computer Science and Philosophy

Merton (2018)

None of my interviews brought up personal statements - they said they were only assessing academic …

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Biomedical Sciences

Oriel (2018)

In most of my interviews, I was shown some diagram or graph that I was asked to explain - they usua…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Lincoln (2018)

I had 10 minutes with each tutor. Economics was related to game theory. Philosophy was about the ro…

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Law

The Queen's (2016)

It was a reading comprehension exercise: They gave a legal case or article to read and a list of qu…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Merton (2017)

Economics: I was given a problem sheet before, solved it and then discussed how minor changes to th…

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