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.

Natural Sciences (Physical)

Churchill (2015)

One of the interviews was a general discussion about my background and education up to that point. …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Trinity (2019)

*FYI: I took American Advanced Placement (AP) classes instead of British A-Levels in high school. F…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Gonville & Caius (2019)

My first interview started with a discussion on which modules I thought I would be likely to take (…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

St Catharine's (2018)

Each interview was a 50-50 split, the first being chemistry/maths and the second physics/maths. In …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Churchill (2018)

It was basically a mini supervision. The first few minutes were explanations of who my interviewers…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2019)

In my first interview, we first looked at a sample physics question and how I would approach the qu…

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