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.

Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Fitzwilliam (2019)

Two of my interviews had some reading before hand, one of which was a historical source and the oth…

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Chemical Engineering

Pembroke (2018)

Generally all the interviews asked me questions relating to my subjects. In the first interview, I …

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St Catharine's (2019)

My first interview was a general interview and I didn't really enjoy it. The interviewer asked me m…

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Classics (4 years)

Selwyn (2019)

In my first interview, we started talking about my views on the theatre that I had written about in…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St John's (2019)

Both of my interviews focused heavily on my personal statement (I had a general interview and a sub…

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Law

Robinson (2018)

Both interviews were led by a senior academic at the College with another person present who didn't…

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