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

Christ's (2020)

In my first interview, I had 30 minutes to work through 2 or 3 questions on my own. This was follow…

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Engineering

Newnham (2020)

Each of my two interviews had two interviewers, with each of them asking one extended question. Thr…

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Engineering

St Catharine's (2021)

In my first interview I was asked questions about the content of half of my personal statement, it …

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Engineering

Robinson (2022)

They covered 2 common A-level Physics topics that everyone would be familiar with and they asked ea…

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Engineering

Homerton (2021)

I got asked a question about a scenario and then lots of follow-up questions about what would happe…

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Engineering

Pembroke (2021)

I was a bit nervous at first, but the interviewer was very nice and I quickly relaxed. I heard that…

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