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.

Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2020)

As a MMLer, I was provided with a page or so of grammar questions (conjugating certain verbs, or ch…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Selwyn (2017)

My first interview was a general interview: the interviews starting by asking me about Selwyn and C…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2018)

The first interview was a general language aptitude test with two language tutors, although they we…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Murray Edwards (2014)

I had two interviews: one for French (which I studied at A Level) and one for Spanish (which was to…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2018)

MML interview: examined a passage by a French author, was asked to give my thoughts on it, to trans…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Girton (2017)

In the first interview, they gave me some material in French and ten minutes to read it. Then they …

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