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.

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Christ Church (2017)

I had one philosophy interview- I was given a prompt about a concept, which we discussed. I had thr…

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Merton (2014)

All my interviews had 2 interviewers. My first interview was on ancient history and philosophy. No …

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Wadham (2016)

In my first interview, there were 2 interviewers. I was given an unseen extract from a Latin poem. …

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Oriel (2016)

In the first interview, I was asked to discuss a poem given to me 20 minutes before (in English). T…

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The Queen's (2016)

My first interview (general):Before the interview I was given a passage from the Odyssey in English…

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University (2016)

In my first interview, we talked exclusively about things from my personal statement. In the second…

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