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.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Lincoln (2017)

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

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History and English

St Catherine's (2018)

English: I was asked about books we studied at school and asked to compare them. We went through bo…

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Physics

University (2016)

I was given 2 physics questions and 1 math question. I solved them and the tutors were happy.

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Physics

St John's (2018)

In each interview I was asked a series of maths and physics problems, with follow up questions on m…

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Modern Languages

New (2019)

French: It was two interviewers. They took turns for each section of the interview. A passage from …

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History

Jesus (2019)

The first interview was to talk through a source that I had been given about 20 minutes to look at …

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