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.

Economics and Management

Worcester (2019)

1st was economics, and problem-solving/knowledge featured heavily. 2nd was management and my person…

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Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics

St Hilda's (2019)

For two of the three interviews I had work/reading given 15 mins prior, which was discussed and cor…

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Music

Christ Church (2019)

There was pre-reading, one was about the Islamic devil in music, one involved being given a graphic…

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Chemistry

St Anne's (2019)

I was asked 2 or 3 different questions in each interview, most with some kind of diagram or handout…

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Physics

Hertford (2020)

I was asked in two of my interviews to explain something that I talked about in my personal stateme…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Christ Church (2019)

We talked about Chinese culture, history, and language. I was asked about a book that I mentioned o…

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