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.

Modern Languages

St Anne's (2016)

My interview questions were mainly about the passage I’d had 10 mins to prep before I went in. They…

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Mathematics

The Queen's (2019)

Out of all 4 interviews there was only one time I was asked a question that wasn't about one of the…

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Chemistry

New (2018)

I had one physical chemistry interview, one inorganic and one organic. Both the inorganic and physi…

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Physics

St Anne's (2018)

A mixture of maths and physics questions: SHM inside the earth, reflection of moonlight graph drawi…

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Biology

St Hugh's (2019)

In my first interview, I had to sit outside in a corridor for a minute or two before being asked in…

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English Language and Literature

The Queen's (2018)

In my first interview showed up thirty minutes early and was given two poems. I had to choose one t…

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