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.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Fitzwilliam (2017)

My first interview was a departmental one, in which I was given an extract to read in the common ro…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Newnham (2019)

In my first interview, the interviewers began by asking me about how I found my school, which I thi…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Downing (2018)

The physics interview was mostly working through mathematical questions and applying equations to s…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Sidney Sussex (2018)

Both interviews mentioned a bit off of my personal statement but one was definitely more science/ma…

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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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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Sidney Sussex (2019)

In my chemistry-focused interview, I worked through a maths/chemistry problem with one interviewer …

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