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

Queens' (2017)

My interviews were both conducted mainly in English but with a section in the target language (both…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Queens' (2019)

One part of the interview was sociology-based, the other was politics/international relations-based…

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Medicine

Queens' (2019)

At Queens’ you can choose three topics you feel comfortable talking about, and so my first intervie…

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Computer Science

Queens' (2017)

My first interview discussed my personal statement and then one long Computer Science-related quest…

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Economics

Queens' (2017)

I was asked two problem-style questions. One more macro themed, the other more micro themed (althou…

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History

Queens' (2019)

The first one was based on a series of extracts which they asked me questions about. They were main…

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