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.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Christ Church (2018)

Interviewers were very patient, kind and supportive. The interview was quite similar to a tutorial.…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hugh's (2019)

For my Economics interview, I was given three different problems on paper which were predominantly …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Merton (2019)

Philosophy: There was a problem sheet: a longer question that I read during the interview(a bit awk…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Brasenose (2018)

Each interview had three tutors in the room (each of PP and E), and we spent about 8 minutes on eac…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

St Hilda's (2019)

In my politics interview we first spoke about different political theories and then about the under…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Oriel (2016)

EconomicsWe were given a problem sheet about insurance and risk to look at for 30 minutes before th…

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