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.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Christ Church (2019)

I was asked 3 questions, each lasting 5 minutes, for philosophy and economics. Then for politics, I…

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Computer Science and Philosophy

Lady Margaret Hall (2019)

Computer science was mostly general problem solving. I got asked a question which led to another mo…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Christ Church (2019)

In every interview, there were two tutors. First interview: this was more archaeology based. I got …

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History

Christ Church (2018)

The two interviews, one was on the personal statement, one was on a set unknown text and my respons…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Corpus Christi (2019)

My first interview was at Corpus Christi - I was super nervous but the interviewers were very nice …

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Biochemistry

Christ Church (2019)

My first interview was very relaxed and quite discussion based. We started with talking about an ar…

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