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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2018)

Spanish: Literature from my personal statement was discussed, we discussed an unseen passage, &…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Pembroke (2016)

My first interview was a general interview. The interviewer mainly focused on my personal statement…

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Linguistics

Jesus (2017)

We spoke a bit about my interest in linguistics at Cambridge to begin with, Then I had to compare a…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

King's (2015)

Chemistry and maths problems, hypothetical experimental designs, discussion. It was very informal a…

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History

Clare (2014)

I was suuuper nervous. First interview was about looking at a source which I had 15 minutes to look…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Christ's (2017)

In my first interview we discussed more abstract concepts, such as how we would consider or diagnos…

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