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.

Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

St Hilda's (2018)

I was given a source and asked to compare two different ancient societies described in it. In the s…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Wadham (2014)

For my first interview, I had to come about 20 minutes early to read a text on ancient epigraphics …

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

St Hilda's (2018)

I was given a source and asked to compare two different ancient societies described in it. In the s…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

University (2017)

My first interview was ancient history-based. Just before the start of the interview, I was given a…

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Christ Church (2019)

In every interview, there were two tutors. First interview: this was more archaeology based. I got …

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Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Corpus Christi (2020)

1st interview: this was an ancient history focused interview and we mainly looked at one written so…

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