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 Language and Literature

St Anne's (2017)

In one interview I was given a piece of prose to analyse, 10 minutes before entering the room, and …

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English Language and Literature

Somerville (2018)

The tutors started by asking me what I had read over the summer, what I had enjoyed and not, etc. W…

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English Language and Literature

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

My first interview was based on my personal statement - I wasn’t asked anything about the written w…

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English Language and Literature

Worcester (2018)

For both my interviews I had to read something in an assigned room 10 minutes beforehand (a prose e…

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English Language and Literature

Corpus Christi (2013)

I had two interviews for English Language and Literature. For my first I was taken into a secluded …

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English Language and Literature

St John's (2018)

Before every interview, I was given a poem and time to prepare some ideas about it, which then form…

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