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.

Biology

The Queen's (2017)

There was a tiny bit of time to talk about some of my lab experience but most of the interview time…

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English and Modern Languages

The Queen's (2019)

In my first interview (for English), I was given 15 minutes before to close analyse a poem (out of …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Brasenose (2018)

Each interview had three tutors in the room (each of PP and E), and we spent about 8 minutes on eac…

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Geography

Worcester (2016)

There was no theme for each interview. They were both held in two very old rooms and I had two inte…

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Medicine

St Anne's (2019)

In my first interview we discussed why I had applied for Medicine and then went on to discuss a rec…

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English Language and Literature

St Hilda's (2019)

In my first interview we talked about the books I most recently read and looked at an unseen poem. …

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