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 (Physical)

Emmanuel (2017)

First interview you could pick Physics or Chemistry. I opted for Chem. The questions could have app…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Christ's (2017)

In the physics and chemistry interview, there was a question involving a diagram of forces. I was t…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Newnham (2017)

In the physics interview I had a quick question on my personal statement then two physics based pro…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Sidney Sussex (2017)

My first interview was based on chemistry. I was asked some quite simple inorganic chemistry at the…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Selwyn (2017)

Interview 1 - materials and physics. Questions on fields. Mostly mathematical as I've not done phys…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Selwyn (2016)

One interview involved discussion of my personal statement. The other two interviews each were cond…

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