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

Worcester (2018)

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English Language and Literature

Trinity (2019)

Somehow we got onto the topic of Pride and Prejudice but they kept asking me about the TV and film …

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English Language and Literature

St Anne's (2018)

Both interviews had the same structure. You have 5 minutes outside the interview room to annotate a…

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2019)

We talked over/analysed a text for the first half, then talked about what I’d been reading, what I …

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2019)

In 3 of them I had a short text to look at before and then spoke for half the time about that and t…

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English Language and Literature

Trinity (2020)

I talked about the texts in my personal statement, and I had to analyse a poem and discuss it in th…

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