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

The Queen's (2015)

Interview 1: I was given two modernist poems 20 minutes before the interview and could annotate the…

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English Language and Literature

Mansfield (2017)

Interview 1: 2 interviewers. We discussed an unseen poem I had 5 minutes to prepare for (they wante…

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English Language and Literature

Balliol (2015)

I had two interviews, which were split into a UCAS interview (personal statement) and a poetry inte…

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English Language and Literature

Worcester (2019)

I had two interviews at Worcester College in the same day, then the following day I was pooled to S…

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English Language and Literature

St Anne's (2018)

Interview #1 - What did you do: read prose passage; annotated passage; talked through passage; gave…

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English Language and Literature

The Queen's (2018)

In my first interview showed up thirty minutes early and was given two poems. I had to choose one t…

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