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, Philosophy and Linguistics

The Queen's (2019)

In my philosophy interview I was given philosophy extracts for pre-Reading. I had to choose one to …

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Earth Sciences (Geology)

St Edmund Hall (2020)

First was using maths in geological context, brief personal statement question, second was Fermi qu…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

Christ Church (2019)

I was asked some questions about my personal statement (my supercurricular activities, theories I m…

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History (Ancient and Modern)

St Anne's (2019)

The first interview was mostly personal statement based, discussing one of the topics I had include…

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Engineering Science

Worcester (2019)

We talked for a few minutes about why I liked engineering and discussed some things I had said in m…

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Biochemistry

Trinity (2018)

My first interview was split into two sections, each led by a different tutor. They took the style …

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