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.

Linguistics

Newnham (2020)

The first interview was with someone from my college, and was a "personal" interview - we talked ab…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Robinson (2020)

After a quick introduction and discussing which subjects I might take specifically, the interview w…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity Hall (2020)

In my first interview, we discussed an extract from a literary text that I'd been given about half …

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Maths

Fitzwilliam (2021)

I was asked a mix of topics in both interviews, they were all maths questions - nothing on personal…

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Classics (3 years)

Queens' (2021)

In one they showed me an image to describe, asked me to translate a piece of Latin unseen, and had …

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Engineering

Trinity Hall (2018)

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

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