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

Christ Church (2019)

The atmosphere in all of the interviews I had was very calm and relaxed, the interviewers all seeme…

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Biology

The Queen's (2019)

Each interview started with an introductory question about why I liked my subject or about somethin…

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Mathematics and Computer Science

St Hugh's (2019)

My first interview (maths) was the hardest with some very difficult algebraic topic, I felt I strug…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

Worcester (2019)

For all the interviews except the first, I had two people interviewing, each taking half of the int…

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Chemistry

St Hugh's (2019)

My first interview was entirely organic based and included rationalising acidities of different com…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Brasenose (2016)

A lot of what I was asked in my interview related to new information I was given during the intervi…

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