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.

Computer Science

Queens' (2017)

For me, it felt like the question in the first interview went quite badly because I thought I had t…

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Philosophy

King's (2017)

The interview was split into around 5 separate sections, the two interviewers varied in terms of wh…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Robinson (2016)

I remember feeling very intimidated by the three fellows who interviewed me, although I know now th…

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Maths

Girton (2016)

Answered most of this above. The "pure maths" interview was not great (you can tell why I applied t…

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2014)

General: There was a graph sketch, a couple of mechanics questions and an electronics question. The…

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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.