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.

Natural Sciences (Biological)

King's (2019)

The first interview was quite informal -just having a discussion about some areas of biology that I…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

King's (2019)

My first interview was for French. First we went through the exercises that I’d had half an hour to…

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Medicine

King's (2016)

Interview 1: We started with some settling in questions (why I wanted to do medicine etc.), and I w…

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Maths

King's (2018)

Lots of subject questions in both interviews. I was asked to improve on the answers I had provided …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

King's (2017)

The interviews were essentially like a supervision. I had been given a text in my post A-Level lang…

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Geography

King's (2017)

Before my first interview, I was given 40 minutes to read and annotate a short research paper (mayb…

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