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.

Classics (3 years)

Newnham (2021)

For the first half of each interview, I was given half an hour to look at an unseen source - one te…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Newnham (2021)

I had 2 interviews, one was a more general interview and the other was subject-specific. In the sub…

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Geography

Queens' (2020)

I had written about a book I had read focusing on a particular issue in a particular place. We talk…

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Maths

Emmanuel (2022)

Just discussing maths questions in both

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Law

Downing (2021)

In my interview, I was barely asked about my personal statement while others I knew were asked a lo…

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Classics (3 years)

Pembroke (2020)

My first interview was a Latin and Greek language test. I was given an unseen passage of Greek and …

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