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

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Very academic but the questions were majorly A-Level standard. Just there to test how you react und…

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History Of Art

Sidney Sussex (2014)

Subject based one asked about essays I’d submitted and my personal statement as well as some unseen…

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Classics

University (2016)

In my first interview, we talked exclusively about things from my personal statement. In the second…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Murray Edwards (2015)

In the first interview, we discussed things I had studied at A-Level, especially in Biology and gen…

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Engineering

Clare (2015)

We discussed my motivations for studying at Cambridge, the college I applied to, and the subject. P…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Clare (2014)

The first interview was with one politics professor. I was surprised that she didn't ask me about t…

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