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.

Geography

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Before the interviews, I was given half an hour to look at two short poems. The first half of the f…

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Geography

Newnham (2014)

General interview: discussed some things from my personal statement (e.g. work experience). Then we…

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Geography

Newnham (2016)

Interview one: about 15 minutes spent talking about geography, why I wanted to study it, discussing…

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Geography

Queens' (2017)

My interview was a much better experience than I thought it would be, the two people interviewing m…

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Geography

Sidney Sussex (2017)

For my physical geography interview, the questions I was asked mainly stuck to topics I has studied…

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Geography

Girton (2016)

Both of my interviews were 'subject interviews', i.e. they were specifically to do with geography a…

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