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 (2018)

Interviewers were very patient, kind and supportive. The interview was quite similar to a tutorial.…

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Classics

St Hilda's (2019)

In my first interview, I was interviewed by 3 tutors. I was asked about an Ovid poem I had been giv…

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Biochemistry

Christ Church (2018)

For both my interviews, I was given an article to read for ~40 mins before the interview. We weren’…

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Mathematics and Philosophy

Wadham (2019)

For maths it was mostly random maths problems without any theme. Philosophy was more relaxing and d…

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Mathematics

Somerville (2019)

I was given several maths problems to look at - usually 2 or 3 per interview. The interviewers were…

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Economics and Management

Jesus (2019)

Back and forth between personal statement questions and questions on the pre-exam. The pre-exam was…

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