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

Newnham (2016)

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

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Newnham (2016)

1 chemistry interview - based on A level topics such as pH and analytical techniques.1 physics inte…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first was not really an interview, more like a friendly meeting.The second I was questioned on …

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Education

Emmanuel (2017)

I was sent an article to read a couple of weeks before the interview, and was asked questions about…

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2015)

The interviews mostly consisted of generic physics and maths questions. The topics included graph p…

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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.