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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

Corpus Christi (2018)

50% was a discussion about literature (both from personal statement and some reading that was given…

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Philosophy

Christ's (2018)

I was asked philosophy questions in both of my interviews. They did not ask me about my personal st…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Gonville & Caius (2019)

Mine were mostly personal statement based. For German I had a passage in German to analayse. Mostly…

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Veterinary Medicine

St John's (2018)

There was not much discussion of my personal statement. I was mainly given scenarios or graphs to r…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Girton (2018)

I had two interviews. My personal statement was never discussed. My first interview consisted of me…

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Human, Social and Political Science

St John's (2019)

The first interview I had, which I think is unique to St John's, was just a general interview with …

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