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)

The focus in both seemed to be on my motivation for choosing the particular languages, and discussi…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Robinson (2013)

In the interviews we discussed the themes of the text I had been given to prepare, zooming in on th…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Sidney Sussex (2016)

For my German interview it felt very informal. I was introduced to both my interviewers and they to…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Newnham (2020)

Both my interviews started with a discussion on the pre-reading I was given 20 minutes beforehand -…

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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.