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.

Linguistics

Trinity Hall (2021)

The interviews were heavily structured, and there wasn't really much room for free conversation. My…

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Computer Science

Trinity Hall (2021)

I had two interviews, each with two interviewers (although one usually did most of the talking). In…

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Law

Trinity Hall (2021)

I was given pre-reading around 15 minutes prior to my interview and the interview was based on the …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity Hall (2020)

In my first interview, we discussed an extract from a literary text that I'd been given about half …

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Engineering

Trinity Hall (2018)

In my first interview, it opened with a mechanics question that the interviewer had developed based…

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Maths

Trinity Hall (2021)

The interviews consisted of just problem-solving questions the whole interview. The questions start…

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