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

Merton (2012)

My first interview was the most intimidating. I was interviewing at Merton college. It was held in …

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English Language and Literature

Christ Church (2019)

The first interview focused mainly on Shakespeare and the wider reading within my personal statemen…

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English Language and Literature

St Hugh's (2019)

In both for the first 10 mins or so we discussed the text I had just been given to read in the pre-…

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English Language and Literature

Keble (2017)

There was a poem for each interview, and they seemed quite tailored to what I was interested in as …

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English Language and Literature

Exeter (2020)

I had a contemporary poem to blindly analyse, and then discussed my coursework texts and the texts …

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English Language and Literature

St Hilda's (2019)

In my first interview we talked about the books I most recently read and looked at an unseen poem. …

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