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.

Medicine

Downing (2018)

In my first interview I was shown pictures of different close up body parts, and asked what the pic…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Gonville & Caius (2018)

At the start of the interview I had to do some maths. I actually panicked at the maths questions be…

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Maths

Emmanuel (2015)

I would say both interviews felt ok at the time. The problems given to me were quite varied; I was …

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English

King's (2017)

My first interview was a group interview, with three other applicants. We were given a passage of t…

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Maths

Sidney Sussex (2017)

We talked exclusively about the questions on the written test that was given before the interview -…

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Medicine

Newnham (2016)

The personal interview addressed the personal statement in detail, expanding on points mentioned an…

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