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.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Robinson (2019)

We talked about my EPQ as it was relevant. I was also given some pictures and extracts to look at a…

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Classics (4 years)

Fitzwilliam (2019)

I was asked about general "big" classical ideas, given some simple English sentences and asked whic…

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Engineering

Churchill (2017)

Almost all the questions in the interview were maths/physics questions that started easy and got pr…

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Maths

Churchill (2018)

Both interviews were exclusively maths questions. In the first, I was asked to sketch a series of g…

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History

Homerton (2016)

I was pretty nervous when I walked in, but it wasn't as bad as I thought! For the first one, they g…

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Chemical Engineering

Magdalene (2018)

Interview 1: Interviewed by two Chemical Engineers. Questions were largely conceptual engineering (…

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