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.

Natural Sciences (Biological)

St Catharine's (2021)

To my surprise, the questions were much more approachable than I was expecting! I had two interview…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Pembroke (2022)

My interview started with questions about something I had written in my personal statement, which I…

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Geography

St Catharine's (2021)

We did not talk about anything other than the resources - nothing on my personal statement. There w…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Robinson (2020)

It was me and two interviewers. I don't think there was anything about my personal statement at all…

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Maths

Trinity Hall (2021)

The interviews consisted of just problem-solving questions the whole interview. The questions start…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Queens' (2021)

My first interview was a physics interview, where we went through a number of questions in a range …

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