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

Wadham (2016)

I was given some graphs and asked to explain them, as well as my thought process in explaining them…

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Biology

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

The first questions tended to be about something on your personal statement, then the rest was goin…

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Biology

New (2018)

In both interviews they started with my personal statement and asked me some questions about it, wh…

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Biology

Somerville (2017)

Neither interviewer asked about my personal statement. The general theme was that I’d be handed an …

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Biology

St Catherine's (2018)

Interview 1: I was asked generally about my EPQ topic (I mentioned it on my personal statement) whi…

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Biology

St Hilda's (2017)

In my first interview I had to read a paper half an hour beforehand, we had the choice between one …

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