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.

Veterinary Medicine

Clare (2019)

In the first interview I was asked some questions about my personal statement, but the majority of …

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History

Brasenose (2020)

The interview I had was online and grouped together written work, personal statement and general di…

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Medicine

St Anne's (2018)

In my interviews, I first had icebreakers asking about where I lived and why medicine etc. In some …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

St John's (2018)

Interview 1: We talked about my personal statement: what I liked to do in my spare time for langaug…

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Maths

St John's (2019)

I had an applied and pure interview and it was just doing problems. In general at Cambridge I have …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2014)

1st interview, post-A level German. I was given 2 texts to read for 15 minutes before the interview…

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