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

St John's (2018)

Interview 1: We talked about my personal statement: what I liked to do in my spare time for langaug…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2014)

1st interview, post-A level German. I was given 2 texts to read for 15 minutes before the interview…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Magdalene (2017)

French Interview: We talked generally about books I mentioned in my personal statement. We then mov…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2016)

Discussed the text I was given before the interviews to read over and respond to. Then in my French…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Jesus (2017)

We talked a lot about Hispanic and Lusophone culture! I was asked questions about my personal state…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Jesus (2018)

I was given 15 minutes to prepare a text. For French, it was a description from a novel and for Ger…

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