University of Cambridge interview questions

Which papers have you read papers of this research group? Why do you want to do a PhD? For this PhD position you need to work together with other researchers as well as with industry, give presentations to you industrial sponsor. Why do you think you are good at that? How well do you know Matlab? Have you worked with large data sets? What did you do for your internship? Discussion after presentation master thesis: have you thought about xyx? Are there any other explanations for what you observe? What is the typical error in these measurements? When did you have a problem during your research and how did you solve it? Describe methodology xyz? Why have you chosen this methodology? Why did you use this material and not something else? What would you suggest for future work and why? And lots of fundamental questions about the topic to test if you have a thorough understanding of the research.

An example question is why I was attracted to the job I applied for