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.

Maths

Emmanuel (2019)

I got asked a few maths questions which we then briefly discussed and I solved, talking my way thro…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

St Catharine's (2017)

Both were biology-based, the latter involved some maths (graph equations). In one, I was asked abou…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Queens' (2017)

My interviews were both conducted mainly in English but with a section in the target language (both…

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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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History

Downing (2020)

First interview, we went over my submitted work, expanded on my ideas. I was then given a visual so…

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Medicine

Peterhouse (2019)

One interview focused on ethics, another was numbers-based, whilst the third one was entirely scien…

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