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.

Natural Sciences (Biological)

Sidney Sussex (2014)

Interview 1: Biology; quite a diverse range of questions covering a few different areas of Biology,…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Emmanuel (2016)

Biology and chemistry questions - the biology ones would start simple and the next question would b…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Robinson (2016)

Questions touched on a variety of subjects for example animal skeletons and bee genetics. I was the…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Robinson (2016)

Felt very welcome, staff were friendly and smiley. Was asked about DNA, enzymes (when in doubt - an…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Jesus (2021)

I was asked about a book I wrote about in my statement and I said what I found interesting about it…

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Peterhouse (2019)

In my first interview I had chemistry and physiology type questions: the chemistry questions were o…

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