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 (2014)

In French, it was mainly a discussion of the text I’d been given beforehand, but also got onto Pers…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Magdalene (2017)

For the ab initio language, the interview was understandably strange as I'd not actually studied th…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Churchill (2015)

Unseen Spanish poetry (an author I'd never heard of), unseen English poetry (very short verses), gr…

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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

Downing (2014)

In both interviews we discussed the contents of the text in the target language.There was also a gr…

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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.