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.

Medicine

St Catherine's (2018)

Every college has a different style of interviewing, there are usually two interviewers with each o…

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Classics

Jesus (2019)

My very first interview was at the Classics Faculty, it was a 20-minute-long language interview: Fi…

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Chemistry

Lincoln (2020)

For both of my interviews, as they were online, I had 10 minutes before to talk to some students al…

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History

St Catherine's (2019)

We discussed topics within my personal statement and if I agreed with certain historians opinions w…

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History

Balliol (2019)

I had three interviews (two with my interviewing College and one with the College that accepted me)…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

University (2017)

My first interview was ancient history-based. Just before the start of the interview, I was given a…

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