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.

Chemistry

St Catherine's (2019)

For the first interview I was quite nervous but less than I expected as I had been talking to other…

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Biology

Keble (2020)

Each interviewer took turns to ask a set of questions that led to a bigger conclusion, which starte…

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Computer Science

Christ Church (2019)

Each interview started with a question related to the personal statement and it should be pretty ba…

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Physics

Jesus (2019)

I had 3 interviews, one physics, one maths and the third at a different college which was a bit of …

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English Language and Literature

St Anne's (2018)

Interview #1 - What did you do: read prose passage; annotated passage; talked through passage; gave…

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Modern Languages

Christ Church (2019)

Language 1: I had 30 minutes to analyse a poem & annotate it. All in all an easy task, but duri…

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