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.

Mathematics and Computer Science

St Catherine's (2018)

It was Maths and Computer Science, so the questions were all technical. The first interview seemed …

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Mathematics and Computer Science

St John's (2018)

In all of the interviews the main focus was on a problem - there was a little conversation at the s…

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Mathematics and Computer Science

Jesus (2017)

The questions were very academic-focused. Each interview had a main setting/theme for me to tackle.…

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Mathematics and Computer Science

Regent's Park (2018)

We went through problems until we reached one I could not do, and then went about solving that one …

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Mathematics and Computer Science

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

The interviews were almost entirely unseen questions on maths and computer science topics. A couple…

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Mathematics and Computer Science

Somerville (2018)

Both of my interviews at my first college began with a general warm-up question, one about my gener…

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