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.

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Jesus (2018)

The first half of both interviews was about my response to the pre-reading I had been set. For the …

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Pembroke (2018)

In both interviewers, I was given a poem to analyse and discuss, although in one interview the poem…

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Robinson (2018)

I was escorted to the correct rooms by students doing my subject, which was really useful as they c…

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Newnham (2018)

For both interviews, I was given an unseen text and had ten minutes to annotate it. I then had to t…

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Selwyn (2019)

I was given a poem ten minutes before whilst sitting outside the interview, and I had to annotate a…

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St John's (2019)

My first interview was focused on my general interests based on a list of texts I’d submitted, plus…

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