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.

Medicine

King's (2014)

On the whole, the interviewers were welcoming and did the best they could in order to make me feel …

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Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2014)

The 1st was very scientific - we talked about vision, blood and membranes, among other things. The …

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Medicine

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Unusual for a medical interview - purely science based. No ‘soft skills’ questions (why do you want…

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Medicine

Pembroke (2019)

In the first interview I got a short question about my work experience and after that I was given a…

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Medicine

Clare (2019)

Almost all questions were academic (eg circulatory system, statistics), while some were problem-sol…

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Medicine

Christ's (2020)

My first interview was quite long-winded; I was given a question from each interviewer which could …

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