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.

Chemical Engineering

Jesus (2018)

First interview was all about working through the problems given and my thought process through the…

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History

Emmanuel (2017)

The first interview was source based. The source had been sent to us in advance and I had prepared …

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Maths

Gonville & Caius (2018)

First interview: Got to choose one of two topics for my interview to be based on. This was nice, as…

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History

Gonville & Caius (2018)

All of my interviews at their core had a set of visual or data-based historical sources. I had to s…

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Law

Girton (2018)

First there were some introductory questions to calm me down. Then they asked me pretty open (very …

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Medicine

Magdalene (2018)

In both my interviews there were 2 interviewers, with one asking me questions, and the other taking…

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