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 (2017)

The two interviews were divided into two ten-minute sections. The first interview was split between…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Hertford (2015)

Hertford: 3 interviews, partly in response to a test we took on the day, especially in the Philosop…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

University (2016)

Politics - I was given a page of reading an hour before the interview. The interview involved discu…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Trinity (2016)

My teachers didn't really have any experience with sending students to Oxford, so they had told me …

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Oriel (2016)

Economics We were given a problem sheet about insurance and risk to look at for 30 minutes before t…

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Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Merton (2018)

For the philosophy interview I was asked about a subject I was interested in and we talked about th…

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