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

Queens' (2021)

Mostly spoke about my personal statement in both. Had to analyse poetry in the languages I was appl…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Girton (2022)

I was asked about why I was interested in languages, things I’d mentioned in my personal statement …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

St Catharine's (2018)

Interview 1: The first interview was based more on language, linguistics, its performance, philosop…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

St Catharine's (2021)

For my ab initio language, I was given a 3 line (translated) poem, and spoke about techniques and w…

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