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

Trinity (2016)

In my ab initio interview, we mainly focused on my personal statement. We talked about why I wanted…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2019)

I had one interview for each language. They both followed the same theme - I had to read a text, an…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Corpus Christi (2019)

My first interview was my French interview where I read a passage, discussed its grammar and meanin…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Queens' (2017)

My interviews were both conducted mainly in English but with a section in the target language (both…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

King's (2019)

My first interview was for French. First we went through the exercises that I’d had half an hour to…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2012)

For the Spanish interview, I had two interviewers who were both native Spanish speakers - one was a…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.