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.

Classics (4 years)

Christ's (2017)

The passage used for the translation exam was a style of text I was not expecting and by a writer I…

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Classics (4 years)

Newnham (2019)

In my first interview, they started off by giving me a visual prompt - the tomb of a Roman emperor …

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Classics (4 years)

Fitzwilliam (2019)

I was asked about general "big" classical ideas, given some simple English sentences and asked whic…

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Classics (4 years)

Selwyn (2019)

In my first interview, we started talking about my views on the theatre that I had written about in…

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Classics (4 years)

St John's (2017)

For my first interview, it was more of a personality interview, with lots of discussion about my pe…

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Classics (4 years)

Selwyn (2022)

I was shown a piece of pottery and asked to describe what it depicts and why. I was asked why I wan…

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