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.

Land Economy

Clare (2019)

There wasn’t much of a theme - my personal statement was picked up on briefly as was my SAQ, but no…

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Geography

Homerton (2017)

Lots of random questions (in line with Geography as it's a fairly random degree!) Naturally I was g…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2019)

In both interviews, there were two interviewers and myself in a small classroom. In the first inter…

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Engineering

Homerton (2019)

For my first interview, there were no general questions. When I joined the room, there was a brief …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Selwyn (2021)

In the first interview, I was given a source — in my case a newspaper article — and I was asked que…

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History and Modern Languages

Christ's (2019)

In my French interview, I was given a text to look at for 20 mins beforehand and the interviewers g…

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