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 (2018)

I had two interviews: one was on my personal statement and one was on a twenty page article I had b…

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Emmanuel (2017)

One interview was personal statement based, but largely ended up centering around a shared area of …

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Selwyn (2017)

The first interview was source-based, looking at a written source and discussing it. My second int…

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Jesus (2018)

In my first interview, I was asked general questions about my interest within history, before talki…

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Peterhouse (2016)

In my first interview, we discussed an unseen source and a little about my personal statement. When…

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Gonville & Caius (2018)

All of my interviews at their core had a set of visual or data-based historical sources. I had to s…

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