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

Pembroke (2019)

Since I applied for ab initio (from scratch) Spanish, my Spanish interview was mostly centred aroun…

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Chemical Engineering

Pembroke (2018)

Generally all the interviews asked me questions relating to my subjects. In the first interview, I …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Pembroke (2019)

I had 2 interviews for physical natural sciences. One for chemistry and one for physics. In the phy…

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Engineering

Pembroke (2019)

There were lots of problem questions. I had to sit a 30 minute test before the second interview, so…

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English

Pembroke (2018)

In both interviewers, I was given a poem to analyse and discuss, although in one interview the poem…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Pembroke (2019)

My first interview was about Spanish language. I wasn't expected to speak any Spanish as I am study…

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