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.

History and Modern Languages

Pembroke (2018)

First Interview: This one was for German. I had one interviewer and a PhD student taking notes on m…

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History and Modern Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

Both interview experiences were surprisingly fun: I got to talk about something I really loved and …

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History and Modern Languages

Selwyn (2017)

For the history interview, we discussed an essay I'd submitted and I was asked to clarify, analyse …

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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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History and Modern Languages

St Catharine's (2019)

In my MML interview, I was given a text to read beforehand, and a few lines of French to translate.…

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History and Modern Languages

Fitzwilliam (2018)

In both the history and the languages interviews I had been given a text to look at beforehand. In …

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