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

Corpus Christi (2018)

50% was a discussion about literature (both from personal statement and some reading that was given…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Gonville & Caius (2019)

Mine were mostly personal statement based. For German I had a passage in German to analayse. Mostly…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Christ's (2019)

For each of my interviews I was asked to read a poem beforehand and we discussed that for about 10 …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Selwyn (2019)

Both of my interviews were nerve-wracking but rewarding. I was terrified, but the interviewers were…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity Hall (2018)

For my Spanish interview we mostly discussed points from my personal statement, especially my analy…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2018)

In my interview for my ab initio language, we firstly discussed in English the novel I had read (in…

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