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.

Mathematics

St John's (2017)

Each interview started with a fairly simple maths question, which was then developed into harder qu…

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Mathematics

Brasenose (2018)

The questions were mostly about graph sketching and equation solving. There were some small bits of…

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Mathematics

Worcester (2017)

I was given maths questions and asked to work through them, explaining my thought process. Some I w…

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Mathematics

Pembroke (2018)

Each interview was different: One interview was on one overarching question - I was asked to explai…

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Mathematics

Lincoln (2014)

The tutors gave me a problem that I would easily recognise as A level esque, and then they'd take t…

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Mathematics

Trinity (2017)

They didn’t ask about personal statement beyond an initial icebreaker of like “oh this is interesti…

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