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.

Computer Science

Queens' (2018)

In the first half of my first interview (Computer Science) they asked me questions about my persona…

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Music

Queens' (2016)

We talked a lot about the canon and particular composers, as well as issues such as time management…

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Maths

Queens' (2017)

My interviews were both entirely problems-based (we didn't talk about my personal statement at all)…

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Economics

Queens' (2018)

I was first asked which I chose to apply to Cambridge, which I think was intended to help me relax …

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Philosophy

Queens' (2018)

We didn't discuss anything from my personal statement or why I wanted to study philosophy. The focu…

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Maths

Queens' (2018)

We did some exercises and I proceeded to solve them with the interviewers guidance. The only questi…

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