Graduate Architect practice interview
Graduate-level architectural design, portfolio discussion, technical documentation and awareness of buildability. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role 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.
- Entry
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview tests whether a graduate architect can connect creative ideas with the realities of materials, weather, access and construction. The panel will use your portfolio to understand how you think, what you produced yourself and how ready you are to learn within a professional design team.
How to prepare
- Rehearse a short explanation of each selected portfolio project, starting with the brief and site.
- Identify exactly which drawings, models and design decisions were your own work.
- Review common building elements and how plans, sections and details communicate them.
- Prepare an example of revising a design after a critique or technical constraint.
- Research the kinds of projects the role covers without memorising promotional language.
Common mistakes
- Discussing the visual concept while ignoring circulation, climate or buildability.
- Presenting group work without distinguishing your personal contribution.
- Reading text from portfolio pages instead of explaining your thinking.
- Suggesting that technical documentation matters less than early design ideas.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, 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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