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.

Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2015)

One of my interviews was a 'maths' interview, and the other was physics and chemistry. We could exp…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2017)

In the Chem/Physics interview I was asked to solve a mechanics problem and one related to electric …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2014)

My first interview was about half an hour long and mainly Chemistry-based. It started off quite sim…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Sidney Sussex (2014)

Topics such as calculus, toy examples of physical systems (e.g. springs), and chemical reaction mec…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Pembroke (2017)

Most of the time was taken up with them setting a problem and walking me through in places where I …

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Selwyn (2016)

One interview involved discussion of my personal statement. The other two interviews each were cond…

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