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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2017)

Before both interviews I was given a text (one in the target language for my post A Level language …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Newnham (2016)

The interview based on the reading - started with what I though were the main arguments of the arti…

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Music

Gonville & Caius (2017)

The works given one hour before; books I'd recently been reading; questions about personal statemen…

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History

Sidney Sussex (2015)

The sources were all 17th century writings on education. They weren't that hard to understand as th…

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English

Murray Edwards (2015)

I can't remember exactly but they asked very specific questions about books I mentioned in my perso…

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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.