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

Emmanuel (2016)

In the first interview, we talked about electric cars, which I had mentioned on my personal stateme…

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Engineering

Sidney Sussex (2017)

The interviewers were friendly and seemed interested in what was said, which helped me feel comfort…

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2016)

The TSA was alright. My biggest challenge was reading fast as a non-native speaker. The format was …

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Engineering

Selwyn (2016)

I hadn’t prepared at all for the TSA (read: I had never looked at one) and didn’t know what to do.T…

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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.