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.

Human, Social and Political Science

Queens' (2019)

Theme was on topics in my personal statement, I'd written about eco feminism in my personal stateme…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Queens' (2018)

I was asked physics and maths questions in my second interview, which were of the style of Isaac Ph…

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Law

Queens' (2019)

I was asked scenarios to try and think aloud about, was not anything on my personal statement. At t…

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Maths

Queens' (2022)

One interview was a random set of unrelated questions. The second had a few which linked, but topic…

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History

Queens' (2021)

I honestly can't remember too much, but my first interview was a real shock and I was given 12 or s…

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Computer Science

Queens' (2021)

The first interview was purely CS-related: half of it was a discussion relating to my personal stat…

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