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.

English and Modern Languages

Balliol (2019)

In each English interview I was given a text (a poem) and 30 mins to read through it and write down…

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English and Modern Languages

Worcester (2019)

All of mine started with discussing a source (e.g. poem) which lasted half of the interview and the…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Corpus Christi (2020)

1st interview: this was an ancient history focused interview and we mainly looked at one written so…

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Archaeology and Anthropology

St Hugh's (2020)

I was presented with unexpected objects which I had to create a consistent analysis of. I was also …

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English Language and Literature

Exeter (2020)

I had a contemporary poem to blindly analyse, and then discussed my coursework texts and the texts …

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Psychology (Experimental)

Somerville (2016)

The first 3 interviews I had were all pretty similar - psychology focused, lots of interpreting gra…

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