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.

English Language and Literature

Oriel (2014)

My first interview was half a discussion on an unknown poem, which I had a bit of time to read and …

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English Language and Literature

Wadham (2017)

For my first interview I was given a poem 5 minutes before it and asked to analyse it. I wrote note…

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2016)

In my first interview we discussed a 'modern' unseen passage (a poem) for about ten minutes - we ta…

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2018)

In both interviews I had to speak about a text I'd been given 20 minutes before. Both texts were po…

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English Language and Literature

St Peter's (2017)

For both interviews I was asked to arrive 20 minutes early to analyse an unseen poem. Each intervie…

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English Language and Literature

St John's (2018)

Before every interview, I was given a poem and time to prepare some ideas about it, which then form…

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