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.

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Newnham (2018)

One of my interviews was entirely based on a poem which I had 15 mins to look at before my intervie…

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Pembroke (2017)

The first interview was about some poems that I had 5 minutes to read over beforehand. It was very …

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Emmanuel (2016)

My first interview involved an unseen poem which I had to collect and read half an hour before. I w…

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Sidney Sussex (2018)

In the first interview I was asked to discuss an unseen poem that had been given to us to read duri…

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Jesus (2016)

We were given pre-reading twenty minutes before the interview started. One was a longer piece of pr…

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Sidney Sussex (2018)

In the first interview I was given five minutes to look over a poem, which we then discussed. I was…

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