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.

Chemistry

Jesus (2019)

Inorganic - we spoke about Born-Haber energy cycles which were in my A level course and talking thr…

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Engineering Science

St Edmund Hall (2018)

In both interviews I can remember I was first asked some questions about myself then they asked me …

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History

Jesus (2018)

In my first interview, I had an extract to read and then I answered questions on it. We could choos…

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Classics and Modern Languages

Worcester (2019)

The first interview for Classics started with the biggest question I have about languages, which wa…

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Engineering Science

St Edmund Hall (2020)

In the first one they asked me two physics questions on projectiles and on materials - they were ok…

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History and English

Harris Manchester (2018)

My English interview was based on an unseen poem and my written work. I was given twenty minutes to…

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