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.

Modern Languages

New (2018)

In my first interview, I was given 15 minutes beforehand to read a text, annotate it and check word…

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Psychology (Experimental)

Jesus (2019)

My first interview began with settler questions about how I found my time in Oxford so far, about t…

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Biology

St Catherine's (2019)

The interviews range in a variety of topics, from genetics (my favourite) and statistics in my firs…

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Biology

Merton (2019)

A practical question about a seed pod, interpreting a graph of seabirds, and looking at a phylogene…

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Chemistry

Worcester (2019)

In my first interview, there was a question on periodic trends and structures of various molecules.…

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Chemistry

Worcester (2019)

In the first interview I had 2 interviewers and was asked questions on A level chemistry topics suc…

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