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.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Lincoln (2017)

I had 10 minutes with each tutor. Economics was related to game theory. Philosophy was about the ro…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Edmund Hall (2018)

It was very much about getting my personal opinion on the various questions. They wanted to know wh…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Catherine's (2019)

In philosophy we went through some basic logic, as in two premises and what the logical conclusion …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Christ Church (2019)

I was asked 3 questions, each lasting 5 minutes, for philosophy and economics. Then for politics, I…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Christ Church (2019)

PPE interviews differ for each college and for my 3 interviews at Christ Church it was purely subje…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Hertford (2019)

For Economics, there was one about freakanomics, a game theory question, and then the rest was math…

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