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

St Hilda's (2019)

In my politics interview we first spoke about different political theories and then about the under…

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History and English

St Hilda's (2019)

In both my interviews we talked about the written work I'd sent in, and analysing a source - the hi…

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English Language and Literature

Exeter (2019)

Discussed my personal statement, was asked to analyse poetry, spoke about what I'd been reading cur…

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European and Middle Eastern Languages

The Queen's (2016)

Many interviews were about seeing what your response was to literature or historical information, i…

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Mathematics and Statistics

Keble (2018)

They didn't ever really ask about my personal statement or general questions (occasionally 'why do …

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Geography

Keble (2019)

The first interview was the one without a pre reading. It began with some questions on my personal …

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