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.

Physics

St John's (2018)

In each interview I was asked a series of maths and physics problems, with follow up questions on m…

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Physics

Jesus (2019)

I had 3 interviews, one physics, one maths and the third at a different college which was a bit of …

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Physics

St Anne's (2018)

A mixture of maths and physics questions: SHM inside the earth, reflection of moonlight graph drawi…

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Physics

Worcester (2019)

I was given physics questions to think about and talk through in front of them, with the interviewe…

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Physics

The Queen's (2019)

My interviews focussed heavily on Physics/Maths problem solving questions (like the PAT, but someti…

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Physics

Magdalen (2016)

Almost all of the questions I was asked were physics-related. There were 2 questions across 3 inter…

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