Tutorial-style interviews with subject-specific problems, often involving unfamiliar material.
Oxford interviews typically take place at the college you applied to. You will usually have two or three interviews of around 20-30 minutes each, sometimes at different colleges if you are pooled. The atmosphere is meant to resemble a tutorial: the interviewer gives you a problem and watches how you reason through it.
20-30 minutes per interview2-3 interviews, sometimes at different colleges
- -Expect to be given a passage, diagram, or problem you have not seen before and asked to think through it.
- -Interviewers at Oxford will often push you until you get stuck. This is deliberate and is designed to see how you handle difficulty.
- -Oxford tutorials involve deep 1-to-1 discussion, so showing you can engage in academic conversation is key.