General Interview Questions
About Yourself
Tell me about your life and how it is that you have come to sit in this chair?
What are your top three skills?
What is your biggest strength?
What is your biggest weakness?
What are your long term plans for life?
Where do you see yourself in 10 years time? And in 20 years?
Who has had the largest influence on your life?
Of which life achievement are you most proud?
What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your life and how did you dealt with it?
How do you think that you studying this subject can affect society or add to it?
How important do you think this subject is in terms of humanity?
How will your experiences from your sport benefit your future studies?
How should we measure your success at the end of your time here?
About Your Subject
Why did you choose this subject? (life more extraordinary)
What do you expect to get out of this degree?
What do you know about the course structure?
What is your favourite thing about your subject? (uniadmissions)
What do you not like about this subject? (uniadmissions)
About Your College/University
Why did you choose this college? (life more extraordinary)
Why have you chosen to apply to study at this university?
What makes you think that this university will be a good fit for you?
What makes you want to come to here given that you would almost certainly be the top student at any other university?
Why would you like to come to this college? (uniadmissions)
Why should anybody bother with university?
What do you expect to gain from going to university? (uniadmissions)
Studying here is very intense, how will you manage your time to deal with all of the work?
Do you think that you can cope with the heavy workload here? What gives you this confidence?
About Your Interests
What book are you reading at the moment? (life more extraordinary)
What are your favourite films and why? (life more extraordinary)
What do you like to read for fun? (life more extraordinary)
Which extracurricular activities do you enjoy?
Which international newspapers or magazines do you read?
Which living person would you most like to meet and why?
If you could have dinner with anybody from history, who would it be and why?
About Your Opinions
Do you have political views?
Who is the most influential: Barack Obama, Angela Merkel or Kanye West?
If you could change one thing on the planet now what would you change?
If you could have one superpower which one would it be and why?
About Your Creativity
How would you describe this painting on the wall to your friend over the phone?
If you had to choose to be a character from a book, who would you want to be?
Which colour best represents you?
Describe the sound of silence.
About Your Logic
Why do you believe what your teachers tell you? (New media Medicine)
How do you know the moon isn’t made of cheese? (New Media Medicine)
In which circumstances would you toss a coin to make a decision?
Miscellaneous
Are there any questions that you would have liked us to have asked you?
Should you be allowed to use your smartphone during this interview?
Tell me about a recent magazine article that has interested you.
Tell me about a recent news article not related to your subject that has interested you.
What did you read this morning? Yesterday evening?
What was the most recent TV programme you watched?
