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

Oriel (2021)

For both my Classics and English interviews I was given an extract about 15 minutes beforehand to f…

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Geography

Worcester (2021)

I'd say it is quite easy with geography to work out which interview will focus more on physical and…

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History and Politics

Brasenose (2021)

My tutors were actually very friendly and I enjoyed my interviews as so much prep and anticipation …

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History

Brasenose (2021)

The interview started on a broad topic (retrospectively I know now it was in reference to the Appro…

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History of Art

St Catherine's (2021)

So my interviews were split up into Interview 1: personal statement and discussing supporting work,…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Christ Church (2019)

My first interview was archaeology-based. I had 10 minutes to look at an image of a wall painting. …

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