Top 10 Grad School Interview Questions and Answers

On this episode of Navigating Academia, Dr. Singh helps you prepare for your graduate school interview by sharing 10 of the most commonly asked questions you will be asked during a graduate school interview.

The first hurdle in the graduate school admissions process is the interview, and of course, you want to ace it. I've put together the 10 most commonly asked questions during the graduate school admissions interview process according to various surveys of faculty members, as well as current graduate students.

I've tried to word these in a way so that they will be, to every extent possible, relevant to any doctoral or masters program.

Interview Tips for Graduate School:

I've also included some tips and examples for how to answer interview questions. Then you can be better prepared to come up with your own great answers.

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Top 10 grad school interview questions most commonly asked are:

1. Tell us a bit about yourself
2. Why do you think you are a good fit for this program?
3. What are your research interests?
4. What do you see as the major trends in the field?
5. Tell us about your most significant accomplishment
6. What are your long-term career goals?
7. What are your biggest strengths and weaknesses?
8. If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would it be and why?
9. What else should we know about you?
10. What questions do you have for us?

👥🗣PRACTICE YOUR ANSWERS WITH DR. SINGH INTERVIEW HERE: https://youtu.be/HArl8nZJyKM

Be sure and watch the practice interview video with Dr. Singh. He will ask 10 most common questions (as well as some others) and you will have about 30 seconds to provide an answer. You can actually go through and practice giving answers to questions so that you are fully prepared for your graduate school interview.

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ABOUT DR. SINGH

Jay Phoenix Singh, Ph.D. is a Fulbright Scholar, faculty at both UPenn as well as Cambridge, and the internationally award-winning Founder of the Global Institute of Forensic Research (successful 2017 exit as CEO).

Author of over 75 peer-reviewed articles and books, he completed his graduate doctoral studies in psychiatry at the University of Oxford and clinical psychology at Universitat Konstanz. He was named the youngest tenured Full Professor in Norway in 2014 and, since this time, has become the only psychology professor to have lectured for all eight Ivy League universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn) as well as both Oxford and Cambridge. Dr. Singh is a charismatic academic mentor and coach who uses evidence-based practices to improve the lives of academics of all levels. #phdlife

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