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.

History and Politics

Christ Church (2018)

My first interview was a politics interview, focusing on set questions the interviewers had. The fi…

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History and Politics

Brasenose (2018)

In the politics interview, I was given a source discussing populist ideologues and how they may har…

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History and Politics

St Edmund Hall (2018)

For my first interview (history) I was given a bit of pre-reading material 45 minutes before the in…

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History and Politics

Jesus (2017)

For the first interview, it was split into two 10-minute segments. The first 10 minutes was spent d…

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History and Politics

Wadham (2016)

In the history interviews there were questions on sources and my areas of focus from my personal st…

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History and Politics

St Edmund Hall (2018)

My first interview was entirely on my written work, which was on a topic to do with my family’s his…

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