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.

Law

Trinity (2015)

I was given a few pages of information about a human rights issue, which we discussed in the interv…

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Philosophy

Gonville & Caius (2016)

My first interview was based around my personal statement but the interviewer pushed me to consider…

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Law

Queens' (2019)

I was asked scenarios to try and think aloud about, was not anything on my personal statement. At t…

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Law

Trinity (2017)

One interview was based on an actual law and three fictitious situations in which I had to apply th…

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Maths

St John's (2018)

In my first interview, they asked generic questions and also about stuff in my personal statement, …

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Law

Peterhouse (2016)

My first interview was the "law interview". I was given an article to read for 15 minutes and was t…

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