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.

Modern Languages

The Queen's (2017)

Each of my interviews (four in total - one for each language at two different colleges) followed a …

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Modern Languages

Lincoln (2016)

The interviews consisted of a discussion of personal statement reading, grammar and oral exercises,…

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Modern Languages

Balliol (2015)

My first interview was with my language tutor and was personal statement focused; we spoke in Engli…

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Modern Languages

Brasenose (2018)

We spoke about pre-prepared text (for Modern Languages you are given a poem and asked to analyse it…

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Modern Languages

St Anne's (2018)

I had a separate French interview and a German interview. For German I was brought into a preparati…

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Modern Languages

New (2019)

French: It was two interviewers. They took turns for each section of the interview. A passage from …

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