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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2020)

As a MMLer, I was provided with a page or so of grammar questions (conjugating certain verbs, or ch…

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English

Newnham (2018)

One of my interviews was entirely based on a poem which I had 15 mins to look at before my intervie…

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Geography

Newnham (2018)

I was given an article to read beforehand and had some time in the library to look at it, then the …

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Engineering

Newnham (2018)

In the interviews, I was asked some problem solving style questions that I had the knowledge from A…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Newnham (2017)

My first interview was about my MML post A-level language so we discussed a text in the language (I…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Newnham (2016)

In one of my interviews they were three interviewers, and in the other, only one. I was fairly nerv…

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