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.

Music

Christ Church (2019)

There was pre-reading: one was about the Islamic devil in music, one involved being given a graphic…

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Modern Languages

New (2018)

Two interviews focused on literature analysis, I was given an unseen text before my interview and a…

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Medicine

New (2019)

The atmosphere was actually a lot better than expected, every single interviewer was lovely and alt…

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Music

Lincoln (2019)

I was given a text and I had to explain what I understood from it and any thoughts about it. In ano…

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Geography

Christ Church (2019)

In my human geography interview, we discussed news articles relevant to where we were from. I was g…

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Geography

St Catherine's (2019)

Neither interviews asked me anything about my personal statement. My human geography interview focu…

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