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.

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Selwyn (2017)

The first interview was source-based, looking at a written source and discussing it. My second int…

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King's (2016)

I was given a time and place for each interview where I was quizzed extensively on my AS level hist…

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Fitzwilliam (2015)

So the first interview we talked a lot about the extract that I'd had time to read over - mainly ab…

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Sidney Sussex (2015)

The sources were all 17th century writings. They weren't that hard to understand as there was an ac…

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Clare (2015)

In my first interview, I was asked some less specific questions which were designed to test how I p…

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Gonville & Caius (2018)

All of my interviews at their core had a set of visual or data-based historical sources. I had to s…

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