Creative arts portfolio scholarship practice interview
Portfolio choices, creative process, artistic direction and response to critique in a scholarship review. Practise the 5 questions selection 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 award
This scholarship interview combines a portfolio review with questions about your development as a creative practitioner. The panel assesses the quality and coherence of the work, how you make and revise it, the direction you want to pursue and how thoughtfully you handle critique.
How to prepare
- Edit your portfolio so every selected piece adds clear evidence of skill, thinking or development.
- Practise explaining the choices behind each work, including experiments that did not succeed.
- Identify recurring ideas, materials or methods that connect your strongest pieces.
- Prepare an example of using critique to improve a work while keeping its purpose clear.
- Check the official scholarship information for current portfolio formats and interview rules.
Common mistakes
- Including too many pieces without a clear reason for each choice.
- Describing only what a work looks like instead of explaining your decisions.
- Becoming defensive when the panel questions a creative choice.
- Using borrowed imagery or ideas without acknowledging their source.
What to expect
A real selection interview
5 questions the way selection 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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