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

Pembroke (2019)

Since I applied for ab initio (from scratch) Spanish, my Spanish interview was mostly centred aroun…

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Classics (3 years)

Fitzwilliam (2022)

Discussing what I said in my personal statement, translation and grammar questions, sources questio…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Christ's (2017)

My first interview, "ab initio" Italian, started by discussing an English text which I had just spe…

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History

Jesus (2018)

We discussed books I read and my comments on them. We also talked about types of popular and academ…

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Maths

Trinity (2018)

I was asked content questions only, nothing along the lines of why I wanted to study Maths/study in…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Gonville & Caius (2019)

In my first interview I was given two problems. Both were on areas of science I had never seen befo…

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