Oxbridge candidates often feel apprehensive at the prospect of being interviewed for a university place.
But in a bid to demystify the admission process, the University of Cambridge has produced a film to show applicants what interviews are really like.
Cameras are not allowed into Cambridge interviews as a rule but the university asked four successful applicants to put themselves through an additional interview to give an insight into what the process involves.
All four students had already taken their A levels and had been offered unconditional places at Cambridge.
The volunteers were each interviewed by academics they had not met before – for places to study geography, human, social and political sciences, medicine and natural sciences.
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