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

Gonville & Caius (2017)

The works given one hour before; books I'd recently been reading; questions about personal statemen…

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Music

Christ's (2016)

First interview was about finding out about me - what music I liked / disliked, what music I like t…

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Music

Newnham (2019)

In my subject interview, the first interview, I was interviewed by two individuals, one of them bei…

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Music

Sidney Sussex (2018)

One interview was academic and about set material given to me 30 mins before. The other was about m…

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Music

Downing (2018)

My first interview was with my Director of Studies (DoS) & another academic. I was given an art…

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Music

Clare (2017)

I was given a score to analyse in advance, which was then discussed, along with general musicology …

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