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.

Human, Social and Political Science

Jesus (2018)

My first interview required me to read an article, which I was then questioned about. I was very ne…

Read more

Human, Social and Political Science

Gonville & Caius (2018)

I was given a text to study for 10 minutes prior to my first interview. We then discussed this text…

Read more

Human, Social and Political Science

Selwyn (2018)

My first interview was based on a passage I was given 10 minutes to read beforehand. I was asked ab…

Read more

Human, Social and Political Science

Pembroke (2017)

I felt like my first interview went very badly and was also very irrelevant to my subject. I was as…

Read more

Human, Social and Political Science

Murray Edwards (2013)

The first interview was with two college fellows (with tea). First, they asked me a few personal qu…

Read more

Human, Social and Political Science

Homerton (2018)

I had one politics and one social science; I knew this prior as I had looked the interviewers up on…

Read more

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