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

Robinson (2020)

For my HSPS interviews, the first one was sociology-based and the second one was politics-based. In…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Downing (2021)

I did it in an office in my college as it was all on Zoom. The interview began by them showing me a…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Pembroke (2021)

I only had one interview and it was almost completely academic i.e. no questions about my hobbies o…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Homerton (2021)

My first interview revolved around a source I was given ~30 minutes prior, it was quite long but fa…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Pembroke (2020)

The interview was very relaxed as the first ten minutes I was asked about specific interests of min…

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Human, Social and Political Science

St Catharine's (2021)

There were two interviewers in my interview. It started with a question on my personal statement, f…

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