Showing posts with label interview questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interview questions. Show all posts

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

MY INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 2/2

This post (and the previous one) solely contains the questions I was asked in each of my interviews. It does not contain my preparation for the interview, feelings, emotions, a step by step series of events or my answers. All of these will come up in a much much more detailed future post. For now here's the questions I was asked in my second interview:

Interview 2 - Female interviewer  (Interview 1)
25-30 minutes long (this one was much shorter than the first one) 


  1. Is this your first or second interview?
  2. Tell me a bit about yourself?
  3. You're into sports, tell me more about it.
  4. Why do you want to study at AKU?
  5. Everybody know's AKU is among the best, what's your one greatest reason?
  6. And why do you think you are suitable for AKU?
  7. What do you think you can offer to AKU?
  8. Tell me about your friends.
  9. Do you have any problems dealing with people/friends/students of the opposite gender?
  10. Tell me about your previous institution. How did it help you grow as a person?
  11. Tell me your 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses. She went on to ask questions as I spoke about each one but they were relatively general. 
  12. (One of the weaknesses I described was of being relatively shy, so the interviewer followed that up with...) How are you shy, you've made so many friends in so many different places?
  13. Is anyone in your family a doctor?
  14. Are you aware of the stress, difficulties and pressures this profession has to offer? How do you and how will you deal with the stress that comes your way?
  15. Give me an instance where you felt extreme stress and how you dealt with it?
  16. What's your relationship with your parents like?
  17. Do you have any significant hobbies?
  18. Paid work?
  19. Community service?
  20. Do you read often? Tell me about the most recent book you read.
  21. Are you into any form of art or music?
  22. What do you understand by ethics? 
  23. What is your opinion on rules? Why do rules exist?
  24. Tell me about the socioeconomic issues in Pakistan, ones you feel are most significant.
  25. Is there anything else you would like me to know about you?
  26. Do you have any question? But please don't as me anything about this admission process because I'm not well aware of it.
  27. Could you tell me who your first interviewer was?

MY INTERVIEW QUESTIONS - 1/2

This post (and the next one) solely contains the questions I was asked in each of my interviews. It does not contain my preparation for the interview, feelings, emotions, a step by step series of events or my answers. All of these will come up in a much much more detailed future post. For now here's the questions I was asked in my first interview:

Interview 1 - Male interviewer (Interview 2)
40-45 minutes long interview (really didn't realise it had been that long until after the interview)
  1. "So tell me about yourself, nothing fancy, just your name, education and details of your family". (He really did specify it out for me, so no fancy "tell me about yourself" answers)
  2. What do you do apart from your academics?
  3. What are your achievements in that sport? (i talked about this sport while answering qs 2)
  4. How long do spend playing/practising named sport?
  5. Any other sports you play? So why did you pick "named sport"?
  6. Tell me about a time when you took an initiative.
  7. Have you ever held a post of leadership?
  8. Do you have any other hobbies?
  9. Why AKU?
  10. What do you know about AKU? 
  11. Tell me about the AKU website.
  12. Tell me the names of programmes offered at AKU apart from MBBS.
  13. Why should we take you? What will you bring to AKU?
  14. Have you or will you apply to any other university/college?
  15. What's your take on cheating?
  16. Suppose you are in an exam and you see someone cheating, what do you do?
  17. Give me 3 socioeconomic issues in Pakistan.
  18. What will you do to improve the level of education in Pakistan?
  19. Are you aware of the millennial goals?
  20. What are water borne diseases?
  21. Have you done any community work?
  22. I told him about helping and guiding people online through a Facebook and Youtube page so he asked me the name of the page, telling me that it was to check it out later.
  23. Have you done any paid work?
  24. Do you enjoy teaching?
  25. What is your relationship with your siblings like?
  26. Have you ever travelled alone? How are you as an independent individual?
  27. Have you been abroad?
  28. Were you a part of any societies in school?
  29. Do you have any maids at home? What's your relationship with them?
  30. What's your role in your home? What chores do you help around in?
  31. You have a really tight daily schedule so you probably do manage your time well, will you be able to continue that if you get into AKU?




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