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

Newnham (2018)

In the interviews, I was asked some problem solving style questions that I had the knowledge from A…

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Economics

Sidney Sussex (2018)

A paper in trade and tariffs with guiding questions was handed to me 1 hour before the interview. I…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Newnham (2017)

My first interview was about my MML post A-level language so we discussed a text in the language (I…

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Education

Homerton (2018)

I had chosen the policy and international development track and my first interview largely revolved…

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Medicine

Gonville & Caius (2018)

Interview 1: I was shown some diagrams e.g. a brain scan and population chart. We also discussed so…

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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.