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.

English

Newnham (2017)

In the first interview (with the prose extract) I essentially just had a stream of consciousness, t…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Newnham (2018)

We talked a lot about my personal statement which gave me time to talk about some of the reading an…

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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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Engineering

Newnham (2020)

- Each of my four interviewers asked me maths or physics questions around a certain topic. No discu…

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Engineering

Newnham (2020)

My interviews contained a mix of technical questions and more wordy/discussion-based questions. My …

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Archaeology

Newnham (2018)

In my first interview, we spoke about the intersections between classics and archaeology. We spoke …

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