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

Downing (2019)

My interviews were mainly discussion-based. Of course they asked questions to prompt the discussion…

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Maths

Sidney Sussex (2018)

I walked in and was greeted by both interviewers; following this, they gave a brief discussion abou…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Christ's (2020)

Mostly A-Level content based, but involved working through problems and diagrams and seeing what I …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Selwyn (2020)

My first interview was based around a source sent to me half an hour before the interview, which wa…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Corpus Christi (2016)

I found it very nerve wracking and stressful to start with, worrying if I’d be able to give the cor…

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Maths

King's (2018)

Lots of subject questions in both interviews. I was asked to improve on the answers I had provided …

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