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How do people feel after their Oxbridge interviews?

Would love to know how everyone is feeling since. Do you have any more this coming week? Or are you done now? How do you feel they went? Which college and course?

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by qdgggggggggg
Would love to know how everyone is feeling since. Do you have any more this coming week? Or are you done now? How do you feel they went? Which college and course?

Hey, I applied for Classics and English at Magdalen, Oxford. I got three initial interviews, but have since got three more secondary ones from two different colleges (two from St Anne's, one from LMH).
I think most of my preliminary ones went all right, there was one where I struggled a bit with the pre-reading that was given due to limited knowledge on the subject, but I think I got through it okay. (I'm hoping so anyway)
I'm honestly quite overwhelmed with interview season, especially because I have three more that I was not expecting, nor can I really prepare for. (and that I've been bedbound and post surgery for most of it lol)
What did you apply for, how did it go? :smile:)

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by qdgggggggggg
Would love to know how everyone is feeling since. Do you have any more this coming week? Or are you done now? How do you feel they went? Which college and course?

Hello! I applied for Law at Worcester College, Oxford. I initially got two interviews with Worcester College which I think went great! I struggled slightly with the first as the pre-reading was on, in my opinion, a pretty tricky legal concept and as I hadn't encountered anything like this before, as I don't study Law at A-Levels, it was pretty tricky with the interviewer having to correct once or twice. Two days after them however, as I had both on the same day, I received a follow up one from Wadham College which went great! Overall, happy with how it all went 🙂 How about you???

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by lilith402
Hey, I applied for Classics and English at Magdalen, Oxford. I got three initial interviews, but have since got three more secondary ones from two different colleges (two from St Anne's, one from LMH).
I think most of my preliminary ones went all right, there was one where I struggled a bit with the pre-reading that was given due to limited knowledge on the subject, but I think I got through it okay. (I'm hoping so anyway)
I'm honestly quite overwhelmed with interview season, especially because I have three more that I was not expecting, nor can I really prepare for. (and that I've been bedbound and post surgery for most of it lol)
What did you apply for, how did it go? :smile:)


Lovely hearing about your Oxford journey and best of luck for 14th Jan! I applied for Spanish and Beginners’ German and I am pretty happy with how the interviews went…fingers crossed for January!!!! 🤞🏽

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by fate01
Hello! I applied for Law at Worcester College, Oxford. I initially got two interviews with Worcester College which I think went great! I struggled slightly with the first as the pre-reading was on, in my opinion, a pretty tricky legal concept and as I hadn't encountered anything like this before, as I don't study Law at A-Levels, it was pretty tricky with the interviewer having to correct once or twice. Two days after them however, as I had both on the same day, I received a follow up one from Wadham College which went great! Overall, happy with how it all went 🙂 How about you???


Glad it went well and best of luck for January 14th! I applied for Spanish and Beginners’ German and I was happy with how my interviews went! Fingers crossed for Jan!! 🤞🏽

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by qdgggggggggg
Glad it went well and best of luck for January 14th! I applied for Spanish and Beginners’ German and I was happy with how my interviews went! Fingers crossed for Jan!! 🤞🏽


Which college did you apply to

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I had 2 interviews with Worcester and another with Jesus for Maths. I think they all went decently. Nothing amazing, but I only got stuck on 1 question and did a few quite smoothly. I do feel like my MAT score will be mid at best but I’m hopeful 🤞

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