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

The Queen's (2018)

The first interview was based on my written work, whilst the second interview had two parts to it- …

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History and Politics

St Hugh's (2019)

In my history interview I was interviewed by four people, so the idea of that was quite intimidatin…

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History and Politics

St Edmund Hall (2020)

My history interview was mainly focused around my written work, with only one question about my per…

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History and Politics

Trinity (2015)

The first one was all about my personal statement and the second was more open-ended (what do you w…

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History and Politics

Brasenose (2021)

My tutors were actually very friendly and I enjoyed my interviews as so much prep and anticipation …

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History and Politics

Magdalen (2017)

Politics interview: I was given some graphs and charts to look through for 20mins. They seemed to b…

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