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.

History

Brasenose (2020)

The interview I had was online and grouped together written work, personal statement and general di…

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Medicine

St Anne's (2018)

In my interviews, I first had icebreakers asking about where I lived and why medicine etc. In some …

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Psychology (Experimental)

Wadham (2020)

My first interview was much more ‘sciency’ than my second. It was split into two parts, there were …

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2019)

The first interview focused mainly on Shakespeare and the wider reading within my personal statemen…

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Computer Science

University (2018)

There was usually one interviewer and one person watching, they might give part of the interview to…

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Mathematics

St Edmund Hall (2020)

There was no personal statement discussion at all. In one interview, I was asked to sketch a few gr…

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