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.

Engineering

Emmanuel (2013)

I stayed overnight (for free) in college because I wanted to be well rested for my interview the ne…

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Medicine

Queens' (2019)

At Queens’ you can choose three topics you feel comfortable talking about, and so my first intervie…

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History and Modern Languages

St Catharine's (2019)

In my MML interview, I was given a text to read beforehand, and a few lines of French to translate.…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Emmanuel (2018)

We talked about modelling equations and data. The interviewer would give me a biological diagram an…

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Law

Homerton (2020)

The first was a law interview, and I was given 30 mins to read some material and prepare to discuss…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Selwyn (2019)

First interview was a mainly pastoral one, like why I wanted to apply for this subject, what other …

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