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.

Natural Sciences (Biological)

Peterhouse (2019)

It was a quite relaxed atmosphere; there was only one question about my personal statement; all oth…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Peterhouse (2016)

To begin with, we spoke about where I was from/how I was doing to help settle me in. My interviews …

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Emmanuel (2018)

For my first interview I had chosen a question topic in advance. Both of my interviewers welcomed m…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Pembroke (2018)

The first was discussing a graph and a couple of maths questions. I didn't feel massively comfortab…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Homerton (2018)

We talked about academic problems; one interview was more focused on Biology, the other more on Che…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Newnham (2019)

In each interview I had two interviewees, both of whom were very friendly! It felt more like a disc…

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