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

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

Sidney Sussex (2016)

I arrived at Sidney and sat in a room. I was then asked to read a text given to me in Spanish about…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

King's (2016)

Mostly about my reading, how I planned to spend my gap year, my specific interests.

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Emmanuel (2017)

The interview was based on the text I had been given for half an hour before going in. This was, at…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Emmanuel (2017)

I was super nervous during the interviews because with humanities they tend to try and challenge yo…

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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.