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.

Classics and English

University (2019)

I had 3 Classics interviews, 2 English, and 1 Classics & English (at a different college I was …

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Modern Languages

St Anne's (2012)

One of my French interviews and my single Spanish interview took the same format: a piece of litera…

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Mathematics

Somerville (2019)

The interviews were all of the same form: quick 2 minute question to just start off, either persona…

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Fine Art

St Hugh's (2019)

I took my portfolio and gave them some time for the interviewers to look through it beforehand. Onc…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Oriel (2016)

EconomicsWe were given a problem sheet about insurance and risk to look at for 30 minutes before th…

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Modern Languages

Somerville (2022)

1. In the first interview, there was very little structure and they didn't talk much about anything…

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