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

Robinson (2017)

The French interview consisted of a few pages of verbal grammar tests, which I mainly got wrong so …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2018)

My interviews generally started with a discussion about one of the books I'd referenced in my perso…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Pembroke (2019)

Interview 1 - Russian (ab initio): I had 30 minutes preparation time with a Russian text that had b…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

St Catharine's (2021)

Both my Spanish and French interviews followed a very similar set structure. I was sent a literary …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity Hall (2020)

In my first interview, we discussed an extract from a literary text that I'd been given about half …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2019)

In my Classics interview, I was given 5-10 minutes to prepare a Greek text and look at a picture of…

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