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.

Engineering

Pembroke (2017)

Both interviews focused on maths and physics questions. For the first interview, I was given a 30 m…

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Maths

Jesus (2018)

Both interviews jumped straight into questions: some on probability, some on geometry and proofs an…

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Architecture

Christ's (2017)

We spoke a lot about things I wrote in my personal statement, and about my academic journey, as wel…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Pembroke (2018)

In each of my interviews, I was only asked two questions although each of them had multiple, relati…

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Land Economy

Sidney Sussex (2018)

In the first interview, I was asked about my personal statement and had to expand upon several thin…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Jesus (2018)

The first interview focused mainly on a few physics problems that I was asked to work through. From…

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