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.

Engineering

Pembroke (2016)

Essentially a conversation where you discuss your thoughts and ideas as you attempt to answer the q…

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Computer Science

Pembroke (2017)

The CSAT was long maths-based questions leading on from the basic A-Level syllabus and some problem…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Pembroke (2016)

My first interview was a general interview. The interviewer mainly focused on my personal statement…

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History

Pembroke (2016)

The first interview was source-based and I was asked to analyse three unseen sources: standard sour…

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Maths

Pembroke (2016)

Covered a range of topics starting with standard A-level ideas and then branching out. Felt challen…

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Engineering

Pembroke (2015)

The first interview was for going over the questions in the maths and science test - there were too…

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