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.

Archaeology

Newnham (2018)

In my first interview, we spoke about the intersections between classics and archaeology. We spoke …

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Archaeology

Sidney Sussex (2016)

First Interview: I was presented with some archaeological material and asked to talk about what we …

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Archaeology

Sidney Sussex (2018)

In my first interview I was asked a lot of questions on my personal statement and especially the sk…

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Archaeology

Newnham (2017)

In the first interview, I was shown a scenario and was asked to explain what I saw and why. It was …

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Archaeology

Emmanuel (2017)

Both interviews were typical person to person discussions with two academics and started and finish…

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Archaeology

Fitzwilliam (2020)

My EPQ did come up, but not everything on my personal statement was discussed - so keep this in min…

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