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.

Engineering

Newnham (2020)

My interviews contained a mix of technical questions and more wordy/discussion-based questions. My …

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Engineering

Newnham (2019)

I was really nervous for my first interview and made lots of silly mistakes. I was asked why I want…

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Engineering

St John's (2021)

There were a few questions about my personal statement at the start of each interview, and I was as…

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Engineering

Fitzwilliam (2022)

In my first interview we almost immediately started talking about subject questions very similar to…

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Engineering

Pembroke (2021)

I was asked why I wanted to study Engineering, technical questions on electricity, application ques…

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Engineering

Christ's (2018)

It actually went more or less the way I prepared for :) Note: mine was an international interview, …

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