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.

History

Lincoln (2016)

My first interview was a source text, where I had 10 minutes before to read it and annotate it, and…

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Physics

The Queen's (2019)

My interviews focussed heavily on Physics/Maths problem solving questions (like the PAT, but someti…

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Biochemistry

The Queen's (2017)

My 3 interviews were very different. The first was an interview which was me having a discussion wi…

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History

The Queen's (2019)

In my first interview we discussed a document that I had been given a few days prior to arriving. I…

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Earth Sciences (Geology)

Worcester (2018)

The tutors in the first interview settled me in by asking a question about myself but the answer th…

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Fine Art

St Anne's (2019)

Was made to feel at ease when prompted by their questions so the discussions or conversations would…

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