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

Murray Edwards (2014)

I had two interviews: one for French (which I studied at A Level) and one for Spanish (which was to…

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Medicine

Queens' (2016)

In the first interview, I was presented with a graph to try to explain. I was asked to suggest reas…

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English

Sidney Sussex (2018)

In the first interview I was asked to discuss an unseen poem that had been given to us to read duri…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Christ's (2017)

The first interview covered maths and biology. I was asked about unfamiliar molecular processes. I …

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Maths

Sidney Sussex (2018)

When I was sitting outside the interview room, I put my headphones on and listened to some music to…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Jesus (2018)

The first interview focused mainly on a few physics problems that I was asked to work through. From…

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