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.

Engineering

Clare (2016)

In one interview, I was given some mathematical puzzles. Similar to the sort of thing I would see a…

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Engineering

Churchill (2017)

At the beginning of my interview the first 5 minutes was used as a bit of an icebreaker. We talked …

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Engineering

Jesus (2017)

In the first interview, I was asked one basic mechanics question I could do, then a question on phy…

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Engineering

Homerton (2018)

The first interview involved a discussion of my personal statement, including my desired specialism…

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Engineering

Pembroke (2017)

Both interviews focused on maths and physics questions. For the first interview, I was given a 30 m…

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Engineering

Trinity (2018)

We firstly had to sit a physics and maths style test, then the first interview was sitting with the…

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