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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Christ's (2019)

In my first interview, the interviewer first told me he liked my pre-submitted essay (but asked not…

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Christ's (2019)

I had an at-interview assessment of counterpoint. In the interview, I was asked to analyse harmony …

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Corpus Christi (2020)

I was given pre-interview tasks to complete, which then formed the basis of discussion. One topic w…

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Sidney Sussex (2022)

I had 2 interviews, and both had 2 people interviewing me. The first one was all based on my person…

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Fitzwilliam (2021)

In one interview we analysed some scores and in the other we discussed an article. I got asked a bi…

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