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.

History

Newnham (2019)

The first interview was based on my two submitted essays. There was a discussion as to my ideas and…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Fitzwilliam (2019)

In HSPS we were given an hour to read an ethnography and make brief notes, which we then discussed …

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Linguistics

Gonville & Caius (2019)

In my linguistics-specific interview, I was asked about an item off my personal statement - somethi…

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English

Pembroke (2019)

My first interview was structured to focus on pre-1800 literature and I was asked several questions…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity (2016)

In my ab initio interview, we mainly focused on my personal statement. We talked about why I wanted…

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History and Politics

Robinson (2019)

The interviewers mainly focussed on an unseen source and my submitted work in the history one. The …

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