Tips for History Oxford Interview

good luck! have got mine on tues/wed and am TERRIFIED

Here is a list of previous questions asked:
History Oxford Interview Questions
Scroll down the page!!! 🙂
Good luck.

good luck! have got mine on tues/wed and am TERRIFIED

That link posted above has nothing to do with the University and I would take it with a pinch of salt. Who knows who put together that list and whether any of them ever featured in a real interview or are just made up by someone on the internet fantasising about being an Oxford don.
A better way to prepare is to watch the demonstration interview released by Oxford which has actual Oxford tutors doing a sample interview with a current undergraduate: https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/applying-to-oxford/guide/interviews
Pause the video after each question and think about what you would say.

The interview questions are very similar to those asked previously and don't change much at all each year.
More importantly, it would take up a lot of time and effort for someone to make up the questions. Believe it or not they're past questions asked to applicants!!! 🙂

How do you know? That website offers no credentials and is not linked to the university. There are lots of dodgy companies trying to make people pay for their “expertise” in Oxford admissions and they are nearly all selling snake oil.
Candidates sign a code of conduct which makes clear that an offer can be revoked if they break it, and that includes not revealing the content of interviews. So it would be a huge risk for them to give that information out to a private company (especially as the interviewer might remember who they had asked what if the questions then show up on the internet).
And it is absolutely not true that the questions stay basically the same every year: that would be a huge waste of time as everyone would just recite pre-prepared answers. Also questions may be tailored to candidates because of what they have said in their personal statements or written work.

Thank you this so so helpful! 🙂

The interview questions are very similar to those asked previously and don't change much at all each year.
More importantly, it would take up a lot of time and effort for someone to make up the questions. Believe it or not they're past questions asked to applicants!!! 🙂

The interview questions are very similar to those asked previously and don't change much at all each year.
More importantly, it would take up a lot of time and effort for someone to make up the questions. Believe it or not they're past questions asked to applicants!!! 🙂

Reported for deliberately misleading good faith aspirants.
thegeek888, do yourself a favour, and do everyone else a favour: be quiet.
Slightly to mis-apply Wittgenstein: of that whereof we may not speak, thereof one must be silent.

It's not helpful, for the reasons explained by xyz1234567. Please pay no attention to thegeek888. He is a purveyor of nonsense who knows nothing about Oxford.
Mods, yet another example of thegeek888 misleading good faith Oxford aspirants. When will you take action?

hi all, i've made an interview guide, with the help of some current oxbridge students. hope this helps, and all the best for your interviews! history interview guide

Oh please, give it a rest Stiffy!!! Surely it is helpful?

Read what xyz1234567 posted above. Listen. Learn. Stop talking. You know nothing about Oxford. Stop pretending that you are some sort of Psychopomp. If Dante had depended on you as his Virgil, Inferno would be a very short poem.

bro you're being so unnecessarily mean😭😭😭 its the student room not life or death... and youre not even a student anymore im crying why are you attacking a 16 year old😭😭