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

Christ's (2017)

My first interview, "ab initio" Italian, started by discussing an English text which I had just spe…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2018)

Spanish: Literature from my personal statement was discussed, we discussed an unseen passage, &…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2015)

In my German interview we discussed in German meanings and representations of culture. They also as…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2017)

In my written interview, I was given an article (in English) about pan-European feeling, that I the…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Girton (2014)

I was given a poem to discuss for the French interview, but we discussed other topics. In the Germa…

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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.