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

The Queen's (2018)

My first interview was a literature interview for Classics. I found the tutors in my first intervie…

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Classics and English

Wadham (2015)

For my Classics interviews, we talked about texts I was studying for A level, and how they related …

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Classics and English

St Anne's (2017)

One interview was on an unseen English passage and a discussion of my personal statement. The secon…

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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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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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Classics and English

Wadham (2021)

My first interview was my worst one. I was given a historical report about a territory in Ancient R…

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