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.

Earth Sciences (Geology)

St Edmund Hall (2020)

My interviews were online because of COVID. The interviewers were really friendly and we started wi…

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Classics

The Queen's (2019)

Two different interviews. First was a literature and language interview. The second was a philosoph…

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Law

St Peter's (2020)

My first interview was on understanding statutes, so I was given some pre-reading for around ten mi…

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History

St Anne's (2017)

I did not have a personal statement interview even though I had spent a good amount of time practis…

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Biochemistry

St Anne's (2017)

I had two interviews at St Anne’s; one more Chemistry based and another more biology-based (likely …

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Mathematics and Computer Science

St Anne's (2018)

We discussed questions based on graphing in both the real and complex planes in my maths interviews…

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