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

Christ Church (2019)

Language 1: I had 30 minutes to analyse a poem & annotate it. All in all an easy task, but duri…

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Modern Languages

Jesus (2019)

My first interview was based around my personal statement and a few grammar/translation tests - the…

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Modern Languages

St Anne's (2016)

My interview questions were mainly about the passage I’d had 10 mins to prep before I went in. They…

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Modern Languages

The Queen's (2018)

30 minutes before the interview we were given an unseen text in the target language with an English…

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Modern Languages

Merton (2019)

I was asked questions about my written work and books mentioned in my personal statement. In every …

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Modern Languages

Oriel (2019)

Was given poems in both languages, asked about the analysis I did surrounding the poems, any relate…

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