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 Philosophy

Merton (2019)

The philosophy interview consisted of responding to questions relevant to the pre-reading I had bee…

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Mathematics and Philosophy

Balliol (2017)

I was very nervous going in but all the tutors were very relaxed - in one philosophy interview he w…

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Mathematics and Philosophy

New (2018)

In the maths interviews, I was given a variety of questions and asked to talk my way through them. …

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Mathematics and Philosophy

Lady Margaret Hall (2017)

For the maths, the topics were approximating integrals for sine and cosine, left-infinite ordinals,…

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Mathematics and Philosophy

Merton (2019)

For maths, it was just general problem solving. Graph sketching and number theory seemed to be most…

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Mathematics and Philosophy

Wadham (2019)

For maths it was mostly random maths problems without any theme. Philosophy was more relaxing and d…

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