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

St John's (2017)

In my subject interview, we discussed a French poem in both French and English  but, in the general…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Pembroke (2019)

My first interview was about Spanish language. I wasn't expected to speak any Spanish as I am study…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Trinity (2016)

French: We discussed a poem by a famous Francophone poet and themes and trivia related to the poem.…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Magdalene (2019)

15 minutes on my personal statement, the rest discussing a text in the target languages which I had…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Downing (2019)

I was given texts in both of my interviews and was asked questions about the texts as well as my pe…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

For my first interview (Latin) I was asked to translate an unseen passage into English and explain …

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