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

St Catharine's (2019)

Both very similar, very personal statement based. The first one was a variety of questions on topic…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Newnham (2018)

At first I was given some time to look over an unnamed extract. We then discussed that text and my …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Sidney Sussex (2012)

The two interviews were themed: one was Anthropology-themed and the other was Archaeology-themed. I…

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Human, Social and Political Science

St Catharine's (2018)

The interviewers offered me water and cookies before starting. The first interview started with que…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Fitzwilliam (2018)

We talked about themes mentioned in my personal statement, discussed my extra-curriculars and how I…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Newnham (2019)

In my first interview, I was given some data to analyse like graphs and tables and I had to point o…

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