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.

Music

Robinson (2018)

Before my first interview I was given a piece of text, written by a composer, to look at and analys…

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Music

Queens' (2016)

We talked a lot about the canon and particular composers, as well as issues such as time management…

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Sidney Sussex (2018)

Various scores that had been given to me 15 mins before the interview. The first was a kind of theo…

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Gonville & Caius (2016)

My first interview felt more like a discussion than an interview. I was interviewed by a music fell…

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Murray Edwards (2017)

My first interview was a subject interview. In advance of this interview, there was an hour long te…

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Jesus (2017)

In the first interview, I was asked to discuss my thoughts on a previously unseen piece of music an…

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