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

Emmanuel (2015)

The interviews mostly consisted of generic physics and maths questions. The topics included graph p…

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2017)

In the first interview they spent about 5 minutes on my work experience from my personal statement …

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Engineering

Murray Edwards (2014)

Physics interview was 50% based on content I'd already covered, but stretching the knowledge I alre…

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Engineering

Pembroke (2016)

Essentially a conversation where you discuss your thoughts and ideas as you attempt to answer the q…

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Engineering

Peterhouse (2017)

The preparatory problems were 4 questions, 2 easy and 2 hard and you had to pick one of each and tr…

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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.