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.

Medicine

St Peter's (2020)

Started with my personal statement question to ease into the interview and each interviewer asked m…

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Engineering Science

Christ Church (2020)

No personal questions, straight into the action! Had one maths related question and one physics rel…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Christ Church (2019)

PPE interviews differ for each college and for my 3 interviews at Christ Church it was purely subje…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Hertford (2019)

For Economics, there was one about freakanomics, a game theory question, and then the rest was math…

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History and Politics

Trinity (2015)

The first one was all about my personal statement and the second was more open-ended (what do you w…

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Law

The Queen's (2019)

The first was a straightforward response to a piece of legislation. The second was again a response…

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