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.

Biochemistry

Corpus Christi (2019)

We discussed basic chemistry, a maths question, and a DNA question in my first interview. In my sec…

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Physics

Worcester (2019)

I was given physics questions to think about and talk through in front of them, with the interviewe…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Hertford (2019)

In the first (faculty) interview, we worked through a problem sheet related to language. It's was s…

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Modern Languages

Merton (2019)

I was asked questions about my written work and books mentioned in my personal statement. In every …

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Mathematics

Worcester (2019)

All the questions were specifically maths questions (i.e. no personal statement questions etc). Whe…

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Law

Merton (2019)

Both of my interviews were based on 45 mins of pre-reading done just before the interview - on two …

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