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

St Catharine's (2021)

Both my Spanish and French interviews followed a very similar set structure. I was sent a literary …

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St Catharine's (2020)

My interviews focused predominately on source interpretation and my personal statement; the questio…

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Human, Social and Political Science

St Catharine's (2021)

There were two interviewers in my interview. It started with a question on my personal statement, f…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

St Catharine's (2021)

To my surprise, the questions were much more approachable than I was expecting! I had two interview…

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Geography

St Catharine's (2021)

We did not talk about anything other than the resources - nothing on my personal statement. There w…

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Law

St Catharine's (2021)

Before my interview, I was sent notes on a case and a sheet with an example statute and some differ…

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