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 (2017)

Before both interviews I was given a text (one in the target language for my post A-Level language …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Homerton (2015)

I was given a text and 20 minutes to prepare a reflection before both interviews. The Education one…

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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

Fitzwilliam (2016)

I had to grammatically analyse words in a poem, that I had been given in a foreign language, thinki…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Corpus Christi (2016)

Each interview was broadly the same format - I was given a piece of text for 15 minutes to look ove…

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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.