Interview Insights

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.

Engineering

Christ's (2018)

It actually went more or less the way I prepared for :) Note: mine was an international interview, …

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Law

St John's (2019)

The first interview was a general one and I was asked about some of the things in my personal state…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Jesus (2019)

First interview was knowledge based, but focused on two of the scientific topics in my Personal Sta…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Fitzwilliam (2019)

There was a little talk about my personal statement in one interview but not the other. It mostly f…

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Engineering

Pembroke (2019)

Both interviews pretty much entirely involved working through problems set by the interviewer. I'd …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Trinity (2020)

We did talk about why I applied to Cambridge and why to Trinity, so even though it's often neglecte…

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