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

Downing (2015)

Each interview was split into two halves, with one for each interviewer. Some interviewers had one …

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Engineering

Christ's (2015)

In the first interview started about my motivations for engineering and about what I liked and disl…

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Engineering

Christ's (2015)

Interview 1: Talk about what motivations to study engineering. The interview was with the 2 directo…

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Engineering

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Very academic but the questions were majorly A-Level standard. Just there to test how you react und…

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Engineering

Clare (2015)

We discussed my motivations for studying at Cambridge, the college I applied to, and the subject. P…

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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.