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.

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Newnham (2017)

My first interview was much more specific and focused on the maths/biological aspect of Psychology …

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Law

Newnham (2015)

In the first interview, we I was asked difficult questions about balancing interests within society…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Newnham (2017)

We went through a few experiments, looked at graphs, and talked about a few items on my personal st…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Newnham (2016)

The interview based on the reading - started with what I though were the main arguments of the arti…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2015)

I can’t really remember the questions. I came out of my Spanish (post A-level) interview in a cold …

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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.