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

Trinity Hall (2018)

In my first interview, it opened with a mechanics question that the interviewer had developed based…

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Engineering

Robinson (2017)

No discussion about personal statement or anything, just two engineering problems. One mechanical o…

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Engineering

Queens' (2021)

We started with me presenting the work I'd brought to show, they asked me a few questions about it …

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Engineering

Robinson (2022)

There were no questions about personal statements or general questions, and we dived into problem-s…

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Engineering

Sidney Sussex (2022)

In my first interview, I was asked why I had applied for this course, and then a technical question…

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Engineering

St Catharine's (2020)

Surprisingly I was asked about my personal statement in both interviews, which I wasn't told to exp…

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