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.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Newnham (2016)

In one of my interviews they were three interviewers, and in the other, only one. I was fairly nerv…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Corpus Christi (2017)

So in both interviews the topic of languages was discussed but only to a basic level, I didn’t do a…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Gonville & Caius (2013)

In the first interview we just chatted for quite a while before she started to ask me relevant ques…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Sidney Sussex (2013)

In the academic interview we discussed the historical accuracy of sources and attempted to translat…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Fitzwilliam (2017)

My first interview was a departmental one, in which I was given an extract to read in the common ro…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Selwyn (2019)

First interview was a mainly pastoral one, like why I wanted to apply for this subject, what other …

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