Interview Insights: Cambridge

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.

Music

King's (2017)

The first interview was based around a text, while the second was based around my personal statemen…

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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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Philosophy

King's (2017)

The interview was split into around 5 separate sections, the two interviewers varied in terms of wh…

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History

King's (2015)

I was delivered to my interview by a history student. The first started with a simple question abou…

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Classics (3 years)

King's (2017)

The interviewers tended to start from my personal statement, picking out something I'd read (primar…

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Computer Science

King's (2017)

The first was 20-30 minutes of short maths questions that were mostly just little bits of maths. It…

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