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)

At first I was nervous as I couldn’t complete any of the questions set in the article, although I h…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Homerton (2015)

I was given a text and 20 minutes to prepare a reflection before both interviews. The Education one…

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Philosophy

Sidney Sussex (2015)

First interview - my personal statement; why Philosophy; why Cambridge; my thoughts on the signific…

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Medicine

King's (2016)

I was asked to confirm who I was (most difficult part!), and spoke about my personal statement a bi…

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Maths

Sidney Sussex (2017)

In the interview itself, we spent around half an hour talking through my test solutions. The interv…

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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.