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.

Classics (4 years)

Newnham (2019)

In my first interview, they started off by giving me a visual prompt - the tomb of a Roman emperor …

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Archaeology

Newnham (2019)

In one interview, I was given physical objects to analyse and questioned on my personal statement. …

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Geography

Newnham (2020)

They were very nice and helped with questions.  

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Engineering

Newnham (2018)

They started with questions about me, why I wanted to be an engineer. Lots about my personal statem…

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English

Newnham (2018)

For both interviews, I was given an unseen text and had ten minutes to annotate it. I then had to t…

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English

Newnham (2019)

First interview: some questions based off my personal statement (I think the interviewer asked me a…

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