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.

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Robinson (2021)

In both interviews I got given an unseen text and had about 5 mins to make notes, and then spent an…

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Newnham (2021)

In both interviews I was given unseen extracts from poems, which I had 15 minutes to look over and …

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St John's (2021)

I struggled with the unseen poetry part of the interview - it was an extremely difficult poem and I…

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Robinson (2020)

I mainly got asked about my personal statement and not really the essays I submitted. I got asked a…

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Magdalene (2022)

My first interview covered an unseen booklet, and my written work. The first interviewer began by t…

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Homerton (2017)

In both interviews I started by discussing an unseen poem or piece of prose they’d given me. I was …

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