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.

English

Emmanuel (2016)

My first interview involved an unseen poem which I had to collect and read half an hour before. I w…

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Computer Science

Gonville & Caius (2018)

Both interviews were technical, with problems to solve, leading into discussion on the way I approa…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Sidney Sussex (2015)

The first interview was a piece of unseen reading. I had 20 minutes to read and study it and then w…

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Geography

Girton (2016)

Both of my interviews were 'subject interviews', i.e. they were specifically to do with geography a…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Robinson (2018)

I had no questions on my personal statement. The interview comprised of four or five broad question…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Jesus (2018)

The first interview focused mainly on a few physics problems that I was asked to work through. From…

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