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.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Corpus Christi (2017)

So in both interviews the topic of languages was discussed but only to a basic level, I didn’t do a…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Gonville & Caius (2017)

I 'messed up' an integration question, then had a very hard mechanics question I got about a quarte…

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Medicine

Queens' (2018)

Before the interview (a few weeks earlier) they had asked me to supply topics of interest in the me…

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English

Emmanuel (2017)

In my first interview we discussed the poem and my interviewer told me to feel comfortable in askin…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Sidney Sussex (2015)

One of them was focused on chemistry, but not knowledge based, you really just had to be able to th…

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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.