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.

Engineering

Girton (2022)

Mostly technical questions where I explained my thinking and they wrote down my working on the scre…

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Maths

Trinity (2022)

I walked into room and was given ~30-45 minutes to answer a sheet of 10 questions. Afterwards, I we…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Girton (2022)

I was asked about why I was interested in languages, things I’d mentioned in my personal statement …

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Geography

Girton (2022)

There were two themes - physical geography and human geography, an object to start the conversation…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Fitzwilliam (2021)

I was asked about a book mentioned on my personal statement, and general physics and maths question…

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Land Economy

Fitzwilliam (2021)

In both my interviews the interviewers presented me with graphs and data and asked me to interpret …

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