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.

English and Modern Languages

St Hilda's (2014)

For my English interview, my tutors started off by handing me a poem and reading it aloud. We discu…

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English and Modern Languages

Keble (2016)

English — I was given an unseen poem and 10 minutes in exam conditions to annotate it and think abo…

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English and Modern Languages

Worcester (2019)

I had 5 interviews in total. In the first English interview, we started with discussing my A Level …

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English and Modern Languages

Balliol (2019)

In each English interview I was given a text (a poem) and 30 mins to read through it and write down…

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English and Modern Languages

Worcester (2019)

All of mine started with discussing a source (e.g. poem) which lasted half of the interview and the…

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English and Modern Languages

The Queen's (2019)

In my first interview (for English), I was given 15 minutes before to close analyse a poem (out of …

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