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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Sidney Sussex (2018)

In one interview, I was given two sources beforehand and then discussed my thoughts with two interv…

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Newnham (2019)

Both of my interviews followed the same formula: we discussed a source, talked about an essay I had…

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Emmanuel (2019)

My first interview was about some pre-reading I was given 2 weeks before the interview. They asked …

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Trinity (2019)

I had 2 hours of preparatory reading in the library before getting to my first interview. I had a 1…

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Robinson (2017)

My first interview focused on a) the practical experience I had put on my personal statement such a…

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Pembroke (2019)

There was a source sheet for one of my interviews while the other was more personal statement based…

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