Canadian engineering programme admission interview practice
Engineering motivation, structured technical reasoning, teamwork and judgement about safe and responsible design choices. Practise the 5 questions admissions panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the programme
This interview considers your readiness for an undergraduate engineering programme in Canada. Assessors look for sound reasoning, curiosity about real systems, awareness of design trade-offs and evidence that you can learn and build with other people.
How to prepare
- Review the mathematics and physics ideas behind projects or examples in your application.
- Practise stating assumptions and estimating quantities without rushing to an exact answer.
- Choose a design or repair project and be ready to explain tests, failures and improvements.
- Compare possible engineering solutions through safety, cost, performance and environmental impact.
- Research the programme structure and identify how it supports the engineering areas that interest you.
Common mistakes
- Jumping to a numerical answer without explaining assumptions or units.
- Describing engineering only as building things while ignoring testing, users and consequences.
- Claiming sole credit for a team project.
- Hiding a failed attempt instead of showing what it taught you.
What to expect
A real admissions interview
5 questions the way admissions panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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