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

Clare (2019)

I had one interview for each language. They both followed the same theme - I had to read a text, an…

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Economics

Sidney Sussex (2018)

One of my interviews was a split between Maths and Microeconomics, while the other one was a split …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

St Catharine's (2019)

In both interviews, they had set questions they wanted me to work through that had nothing to do wi…

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English

Jesus (2018)

The discussion was almost exclusively about my personal statement and about the pre-reading I had d…

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Law

Trinity Hall (2019)

My interviews both took place after I had had 20 minutes of reading time for each. One of the readi…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Selwyn (2019)

My first interview was general; I got asked about some work experience I had written about on my pe…

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