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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Christ's (2016)

At the beginning of each interview I had to analyse an unseen poem (I had about three minutes of re…

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Murray Edwards (2016)

Questions mainly from personal statement, from essays I submitted and from an unseen text of poetry.

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Emmanuel (2015)

At the first interview we went through various aspects of my personal statement and discussed issue…

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Robinson (2018)

In the first interview I was given a poem to read and then asked about it. We also talked about som…

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Peterhouse (2022)

My first interview was based on some pre-reading I was given before the interview, my English A lev…

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Gonville & Caius (2019)

My first interview took the form of a general chat, where my answers generally led the topics explo…

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