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.

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Emmanuel (2016)

The first interview was about my personal statement, so make sure you are prepared to be questioned…

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Classics (4 years)

Christ's (2017)

The passage used for the translation exam was a verse text (not what I was expecting) by a writer I…

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Human, Social and Political Science

King's (2016)

The interview began by discussing the essay that I had written in the entry examination taken in la…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Corpus Christi (2016)

Each interview was broadly the same format - I was given a piece of text for 15 minutes to look ove…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first interview was very chemistry based. It was very difficult and I didn’t understand some of…

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History

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The first interview was centred around my personal statement and I was given some questions as to h…

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