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.

Education

Christ's (2021)

Both of my interviews were nice—it felt more like an academic conversation than an intense intervie…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Magdalene (2020)

My first interview was Physics/Chemistry focused. I was asked one question by each interviewer and …

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History and Modern Languages

Girton (2021)

The atmosphere of the interview was very friendly yet certainly professional. In my history intervi…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St Catharine's (2020)

My interviews focused predominately on source interpretation and my personal statement; the questio…

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Pembroke (2019)

The first interview, for Arabic, had more of a focus on my personal statement. We discussed the Ara…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Girton (2022)

I had two interviews, one about maths and one about physics. The maths one started off with quite a…

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