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.

Linguistics

Gonville & Caius (2019)

In my linguistics-specific interview, I was asked about an item off my personal statement - somethi…

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Linguistics

King's (2018)

We spoke mainly about my personal statement. I was asked questions about every area I wrote about i…

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Linguistics

Christ's (2019)

The first interview wasn't subject specific, it was lead by an Egyptologist and (I think) a histori…

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Linguistics

Trinity Hall (2021)

The interviews were heavily structured, and there wasn't really much room for free conversation. My…

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Linguistics

King's (2021)

We did a mixture of exercises which didn't require any previous knowledge and were more about your …

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Linguistics

Jesus (2017)

We spoke a bit about my interest in linguistics at Cambridge to begin with, Then I had to compare a…

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