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

New (2018)

In my first interview, I was given 15 minutes beforehand to read a text, annotate it and check word…

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Modern Languages

New (2018)

Two interviews focused on literature analysis, I was given an unseen text before my interview and a…

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Modern Languages

Jesus (2018)

There was a very friendly atmosphere. My interview mainly focused on personal statement and some re…

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Modern Languages

Balliol (2019)

First interview: Merton College - I was given a poem for which I had 10 mins of preparation time to…

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Modern Languages

St Anne's (2012)

One of my French interviews and my single Spanish interview took the same format: a piece of litera…

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Modern Languages

Somerville (2022)

1. In the first interview, there was very little structure and they didn't talk much about anything…

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