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.

Medicine

Trinity (2018)

The atmosphere was superficially relaxed, but of course, it was stressful in the moment. That’s una…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2019)

In my Classics interview, I was given 5-10 minutes to prepare a Greek text and look at a picture of…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Downing (2019)

The first interview was the "physical" one although I didn't do physics A level so they mostly aske…

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Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Queens' (2021)

Firstly, there were NO TRICK QUESTIONS, despite the rumours online about this being the case. My in…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Homerton (2021)

My first interview revolved around a source I was given ~30 minutes prior, it was quite long but fa…

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Maths

Jesus (2022)

Both interviews took approximately the same structure: after a brief introduction we jumped straigh…

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