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

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

Jesus (2018)

In the interview, I explained things written in my personal statement, going more in depth than wha…

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Engineering

Queens' (2018)

In the first interview, we started by talking about my personal statement, they wanted to see my en…

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2016)

All of the questions were mechanics based. In the first I had to derive a fairly simple acceleratio…

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Engineering

Peterhouse (2018)

The first interview was scary. I had done a problem sheet where I picked two (one mechanics and ano…

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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.