Posting interview questions

[rat-a-tattat]

could email them and ask for feedback.. most unis do that.

[blueberrypie]

i had an interview at georges but didn't get in. I thought it had gone ok. Is there any way I could find out why they rejected me?

Nope. I was also rejected at interview and I asked for feedback too, but they told me they were unable to.

[rat-a-tattat]

wat, they dont give feedbacks? or are they just busy? coz i figured most unis have an automated or generic response they give to applicants.

[blueberrypie]

Hmmm, might be different for the course I was going for. I was actually going for the foundation for medicine, so 6 years instead of 5. We were told that it was done on a scoring system, if you didn't hit the score you didn't get through and if you did, you did.

When asked if it was possible to have feedback, we were told it wasn't. Although I am there doing a different course now. Try it and see. Maybe you will have more luck than we did.

[Drinthehouse]

Allow me to wade into this debate - I've seen an interesting research paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia showing that coaching for MMI interviews has no effect on overall performance.

Of course, you'd expect most of the candidates to have prepared in some way, but this would not usually (I expect) include knowledge of the exact questions. The paper states:

"Although coaching could prepare candidates with examples of “good” responses, interviewers may actually have given lower scores to those whose responses appeared “rehearsed” or lacking a genuine quality."

So, if anything, try to avoid seeing potential interview questions in advance! I hope I'm not giving anyone an unfair advantage by sharing this particular gem...

Link: eMJA: Does practice make perfect? The effect of coaching and retesting on selection tests used for admission to an Australian medical school

[ozy123]

Allow me to wade into this debate - I've seen an interesting research paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia showing that coaching for MMI interviews has no effect on overall performance.

Of course, you'd expect most of the candidates to have prepared in some way, but this would not usually (I expect) include knowledge of the exact questions. The paper states:

"Although coaching could prepare candidates with examples of “good” responses, interviewers may actually have given lower scores to those whose responses appeared “rehearsed” or lacking a genuine quality."

So, if anything, try to avoid seeing potential interview questions in advance! I hope I'm not giving anyone an unfair advantage by sharing this particular gem...

Link: eMJA: Does practice make perfect? The effect of coaching and retesting on selection tests used for admission to an Australian medical school

Unless you wrote that paper in a clever ploy to try and persuade people to not prepare!

But seriously, one of the points it makes is that when students repeated the testing the scores improved, they did go on to elaborate about regression to the mean. I didn't read it in depth but I guess what they were saying was that if you performed very badly then a practise run would be useful to raise your score. I fear I may be one of these people who need a practise run.