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.

Geography

Emmanuel (2017)

In the first one, I was asked why I wanted to study the subject, then had a few questions about a f…

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Geography

Fitzwilliam (2018)

I had a piece of set reading prior to the interview, and one article given on the day itself. We us…

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Geography

King's (2017)

Before my first interview, I was given 40 minutes to read and annotate a short research paper (mayb…

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Geography

Newnham (2020)

They were very nice and helped with questions.  

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Geography

Downing (2019)

For each interview, I was asked to read an article just before, and was given around 25 minutes to …

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Geography

Downing (2019)

We were asked to analyse data graphs and talk about articles as well as discussing personal stateme…

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