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.

Law

St Catherine's (2019)

They gave us a short reading in one (a judgement from a case from the European courts) and then a l…

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English Language and Literature

Keble (2017)

There was a poem for each interview, and they seemed quite tailored to what I was interested in as …

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Modern Languages

Oriel (2019)

Was given poems in both languages, asked about the analysis I did surrounding the poems, any relate…

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Law

Corpus Christi (2017)

I was completely surprised by how much I genuinely enjoyed my interviews. The tutors started off wi…

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Classics

Jesus (2019)

My very first interview was at the Classics Faculty, it was a 20-minute-long language interview: Fi…

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History

Balliol (2019)

My first and third interviews were based on my personal statement and written work. My second inter…

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