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

Brasenose (2019)

My first interview at Brasenose was on philosophy - which I wasn’t expecting as I applied for psych…

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Music

Worcester (2017)

My personal statement didn't come up at all. Each interview was focussed around either a score, a t…

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English Language and Literature

Merton (2012)

My first interview was the most intimidating. I was interviewing at Merton college. It was held in …

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Mathematics

Worcester (2019)

For the first one, I was given a sheet of problems the day before, and during the interview we talk…

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Mathematics

Worcester (2019)

For the first interview I was given a problem sheet beforehand, and in the interview we went throug…

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Mathematics

St Anne's (2018)

The majority of them were working through a few problems on pen and paper, with the interviewers pr…

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