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.

Medicine

The Queen's (2019)

I was asked to describe a couple of experiments. I was then given some patient scenarios where I ha…

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Modern Languages

Balliol (2019)

First interview: Merton College - I was given a poem for which I had 10 mins of preparation time to…

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Biomedical Sciences

Keble (2019)

All my interviews started very casually and with a question about something from my personal statem…

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History

The Queen's (2019)

One interview was based on an extract we got a few days before--there were around 10 questions that…

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Biology

St Hilda's (2019)

I answered questions on unfamiliar text material relating to my course, further questions on the su…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Hertford (2019)

For my faculty interview, I had to solve a small problem, which the interviewers talked through wit…

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