Here are the top 5 reasons why most medical school applicants will get rejected during the interview stages.
- You started your preparation far too late. This may be primarily due to poor time management but often it is due to the fact that you think you will be fine on the day. Thinking like this, really is a “Recipe For Disaster”. Interview skills are just like any other skills in that they take a time to develop.
During your practice for these skills, there will be some days where you do really well and other days where nothing will go to plan. However, the more practice you get, the more you will be and the more likely you are to do well on the actual day of the Interview.
- We find that students often waste too much time on student online forums or on social media platforms watching poor quality videos. The best way to be time efficient is to get one-to-one tuition from an experienced tutor.
A 1:1 interview tutorial is better than even a hundred hours spent on time forums. Certainly, you may pick up some tips and techniques from online forums but generally, it is not an efficient way to use your precious time.
- Students will forget just how competitive the interview process is. It is not an exaggeration to say that you will only have a 30% chance of coming through successfully because for every one place they will be interviewing, there will be three or four others queuing up behind you.
However, using the correct skills and techniques, you can increase your chances significantly. They also forget that the medical selection panel interview members have a really tough job and won’t hesitate to immediately reject any shortcomings.
- Students will not carry out enough realistic interview practice. They may read plenty of good quality books but the only way to actually prepare is to practice realistic interview scenarios and receive expert feedback.
Some organised students will perform interview practice in front of people they know but this stops short when it comes to receiving good quality feedback.
- Despite the above, many students will go into interviews without the basic knowledge of the medical profession and the common topics they are expected to know. This is another recipe for failing the interview.
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