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.

Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

Selwyn (2018)

We discussed topics including supersessionism, aesthetics, music, war, and ethics.It was hard but t…

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Economics

Sidney Sussex (2017)

In my first interview, we discussed production and productivity (including how Brexit could have an…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2014)

My first interview was about half an hour long and mainly Chemistry-based. It started off quite sim…

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History

Sidney Sussex (2015)

The first interview was source analysis. We worked through the first source: how to identify it, wh…

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English

Robinson (2018)

Although this maybe a surprise to some, I actually enjoyed the whole interview process. I was obvio…

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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.