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.

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Newnham (2019)

My first interview was for Arabic, and took place in the AMES faculty. For both my interviews, some…

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English

Newnham (2019)

There was a ten-minute period allocated to reading through and annotating the given extract. One of…

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History

Newnham (2019)

Both of my interviews followed the same broad pattern: we started with a source (this was a picture…

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Computer Science

Robinson (2021)

My interview consisted of three maths problems asked by a professor. I was given hints while I atte…

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History

Newnham (2019)

In my first interview they asked me about the essay I had submitted and mainly focused on that and …

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Music

Newnham (2019)

In my subject interview, the first interview, I was interviewed by two individuals, one of them bei…

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