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

Pembroke (2019)

Since I applied for ab initio (from scratch) Spanish, my Spanish interview was mostly centred aroun…

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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

Jesus (2017)

I arrived at my first interview having had a terrible journey (I had been unwell on the train) but …

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Modern and Medieval Languages

King's (2017)

The interviews were essentially like a supervision. I had been given a text in my post A-Level lang…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

St Catharine's (2018)

Interview 1: The first interview was based more on language, linguistics, its performance, philosop…

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Modern and Medieval Languages

Clare (2019)

My first interview was the "post-A level language interview". The first half of the interview was c…

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