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

Magdalen (2019)

In my psychology interviews, we talked through several hypothetical studies. One of these was compl…

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English Language and Literature

Worcester (2018)

Law

Mansfield (2019)

My interviews were predominantly academic; I was only asked two questions regarding my personal sta…

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Classics

Brasenose (2016)

It varied! Mostly I would have an unseen passage to look at beforehand (for 20-30 mins) and then we…

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Philosophy and Theology

Worcester (2019)

Three of the interviews had a sheet I was required to read with a philosophical argument and then I…

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Chemistry

Merton (2019)

One interview on organic and inorganic chemistry and one on maths and physical chemistry, nothing b…

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