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.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Robinson (2019)

We talked about my EPQ as it was relevant. I was also given some pictures and extracts to look at a…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St Catharine's (2019)

My first interview was a general interview and I didn't really enjoy it. The interviewer asked me m…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St John's (2019)

Both of my interviews focused heavily on my personal statement (I had a general interview and a sub…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Newnham (2021)

I had 2 interviews, one was a more general interview and the other was subject-specific. In the sub…

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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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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

St John's (2019)

For my College interview, the questions were quite broad, but still seemed to be focussed on my aca…

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