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 (2014)

My first interview was more about math and physics problems. The focus was on a vehicle, and unders…

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Engineering

Robinson (2015)

In the interview, we discussed some pretty tricky questions about structures and circuits. Although…

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Engineering

Sidney Sussex (2015)

In the first interview we just marked my test. We didn’t mark the questions in order – I think the …

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Engineering

Emmanuel (2011)

Complex numbers, Archimedes principle, Newton's laws - conceptually challenging.

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Engineering

Clare (2015)

The first interview started with extracurricular chat! It then moved on to problem solving and ques…

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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.