Cambridge AMES 2025 applicants

how were peoples interviews today

was NOT expecting some of those questions at all, one of the interviewers said can I ask you something completely unrelated to the course and I felt beads of SWEAT BRO😭😭😭But I gave it a good shot. How about yours?

i'm sure it went well, if they're challenging you thats good. highkey scared about mine because i mentioned one of my motivations for studying arabic which came from a travel experience. i think the interviewer thought i knew more about it though than i did, so they were grilling me so much and i ended up saying all the wrong things. whoops

i'm sure it went well, if they're challenging you thats good. highkey scared about mine because i mentioned one of my motivations for studying arabic which came from a travel experience. i think the interviewer thought i knew more about it though than i did, so they were grilling me so much and i ended up saying all the wrong things. whoops

my first one was decent I think? I keep thinking too much about the second tho... I could talk about Japan and look at a text in Japanese, but I basically got told the answer on a really simple English grammar question I could have answered fine any other day 😭 I'm really hung up on it, hopefully it doesn't matter too much...
I got grilled as well and there was one other question I couldn't answer because I didn't know enough, just gonna try and forget about it all now - good luck to anyone else with interviews soon !

how do people recommend preparing for the unseen text interview?? i'm not sure what i should focus on.

arabic and french at sidney sussex!! what about other people? xx

Firstly congratulations omg that is incredible!!!!!! I know this is a bit random but I’m currently in yr12 and I’m super interested in applying to Cambridge for Arabic and Spanish in October and I just wanted to ask what made you pick Sidney Sussex college? It’s just because there’s sooooo many colleges to choose from and I’ve already been to a few and I’m still not sure because they are all really nice. Arabic is such a niche and cool subject but there’s hardly anything online of ideas about personal statements so I have no idea what I should put on it😪😪

Heyy, first of all, thanks so much for replying hahha your journey to picking ames sounds so cool and picking Sidney Sussex based off your old cat is so real. I feel like I’d do that with Sidney Sussex just because I’m from Sussex or something like that for example hahah. I’m also from a state school so I worry about the disparity between state school kids and public school students at each college as I want to feel not too out of my depth and not represented yk. I’m sure you’ll have a great time at offer holder day and you have time to research the course to make sure you absolutely like it of course! I was just curious to know what a levels you do and if you don’t mind me asking what are your predicted grades? Also, sorry if I’m writing too much 😓😓, I just wondered how you went about applying for different courses- did you talk about languages in your ps that you sent to your other unis for medicine or did you only write about languages in the separate Cambridge ps they ask for? At the moment I’m stuck between some of my 5 choices being Spanish and French and a couple being Spanish and Arabic (in the end I’m thinking of just applying to Bath for French and the rest with Arabic tbh because half the unis including Cambridge won’t let me do French because I don’t take it at A level) so should I not mention French at all? Sorry if these are silly questions🥲