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.

Computer Science and Philosophy

St Anne's (2019)

My first philosophy interview started with some logic questions that I was given previously, as wel…

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Classics

Merton (2019)

My first interview was talking about stuff in my personal statement and it was a really nice conver…

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English Language and Literature

St Hugh's (2019)

In both for the first 10 mins or so we discussed the text I had just been given to read in the pre-…

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Classics

Corpus Christi (2020)

For my course, Classics II, I had three interviews. One was about ‘language learning’: how I would …

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Geography

Jesus (2018)

The interviews are not designed to work out how much or what you know, but how you work through pro…

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Materials Science

St Edmund Hall (2020)

Teddy (St Edmund's) Hall - started with some general discussions about my interest in materials, mo…

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