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.

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Emmanuel (2016)

My first interview involved an unseen poem which I had to collect and read half an hour before. I w…

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Sidney Sussex (2017)

My first interview was a general discussion about literature e.g. the relationship between music an…

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Pembroke (2017)

I was given an extract to discuss in both of my interviews. In the first interview, I was given the…

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Newnham (2015)

Was asked what I thought of the two texts I was given before - asked to give my general opinions be…

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Newnham (2015)

In the first interview I was given a poem to read beforehand, so we started with me basically just …

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Sidney Sussex (2018)

In the first interview I was given five minutes to look over a poem, which we then discussed. I was…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.