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.

English

Robinson (2018)

I was escorted to the correct rooms by students doing my subject, which was really useful as they c…

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English

Newnham (2018)

For both interviews, I was given an unseen text and had ten minutes to annotate it. I then had to t…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2019)

My first interview was the "post-A level language interview". The first half of the interview was c…

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Geography

Downing (2019)

For each interview, I was asked to read an article just before, and was given around 25 minutes to …

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Geography

Downing (2019)

We were asked to analyse data graphs and talk about articles as well as discussing personal stateme…

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English

Selwyn (2019)

I was given a poem ten minutes before whilst sitting outside the interview, and I had to annotate a…

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