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.

Music

St Hilda's (2017)

For music we had one interview based on harmony and basic piano skills, which only lasted for 15 mi…

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Music

St Catherine's (2018)

My interviews started off with a general question about why I wanted to study music or about my per…

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Music

Lincoln (2016)

I was given an extract from a book to read; I was also given two pieces of music to analyse and com…

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Music

St Hilda's (2018)

I had 6 interviews, including a harmony test, plus an instrumental audition for me. However, most m…

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Music

Worcester (2018)

I was given material before the interview (an essay on European music and various scores of music) …

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Somerville (2018)

We discussed pieces from musicology books - what I thought the writer was trying to say and what I …

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