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.

Maths

Trinity (2019)

My only interview was academic. The interviewer posed a question and we worked through it on paper.…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Sidney Sussex (2019)

My first interview was a biology interview, where I was asked to comment on some animal diagrams co…

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Archaeology

Fitzwilliam (2020)

My EPQ did come up, but not everything on my personal statement was discussed - so keep this in min…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2020)

Both my interviews started with a discussion on the pre-reading I was given 20 minutes beforehand -…

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Geography

Newnham (2019)

1st interview: I had to read an article about human rights abuses and complexities in the shift tow…

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Archaeology

Newnham (2020)

Questions in the interview centered on discussing the books I had included in my personal statement…

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