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.

Geography

King's (2017)

Before my first interview, I was given 40 minutes to read and annotate a short research paper (mayb…

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Maths

Homerton (2018)

In both interviewers, there were two people. An academic asked the questions, and a PhD student wro…

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Geography

Newnham (2020)

They were very nice and helped with questions.  

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Engineering

Magdalene (2015)

I walked in and was greeted in a friendly manner by the interviewer. The interviewer briefly explai…

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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Magdalene (2019)

In interview one: - Talked about essays I’d done before the interview, talked about themes that wer…

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Chemical Engineering

Jesus (2018)

I had one maths and one science interview. For the maths interview, I collected an envelope of ques…

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