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.

Law

Christ's (2016)

First interview - Roman Law theoretical problemSecond - Summarising a judgment and explaining its m…

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Classics (3 years)

King's (2017)

The interviewers tended to start from my personal statement, picking out something I'd read (primar…

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Computer Science

King's (2017)

The first was 20-30 minutes of short maths questions that were mostly just little bits of maths. It…

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History and Politics

Sidney Sussex (2016)

At the time, I thought my History interview had gone really well. We started off my talking about m…

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Law

Pembroke (2017)

It was daunting. They asked one gentle question about my sailing before starting the academic quest…

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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.