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)

In my first interview we discussed my personal statement and interest in engineering. We then had a…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Emmanuel (2016)

Interview 1 (chemistry based): I was given 10 minutes before the interview to look at a 3-4 page bo…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Pembroke (2018)

I had one chemistry and one physics based exam; as expressed in my personal statement, these were m…

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English

Sidney Sussex (2017)

My first interview was a general discussion about literature e.g. the relationship between music an…

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Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2016)

In my first interview at Sidney Sussex I was asked why I want to do my subject and why Cambridge. T…

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Computer Science

Gonville & Caius (2018)

Both interviews were technical, with problems to solve, leading into discussion on the way I approa…

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