Undergraduate scholarship practice interview
Academic achievement, goals, leadership and service, resilience and use of the scholarship. 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
An undergraduate scholarship interview helps a panel choose students who will make the most of funding for their first degree. The panel looks at your academic record, what you want to study and why, how you have led or served others, how you have handled setbacks, and how the award will change what you can achieve.
How to prepare
- Know your results well, including WAEC and JAMB scores, and be ready to explain any weak subject honestly.
- Link your chosen course to a clear goal and a real experience that pointed you towards it.
- Prepare two short stories of leadership or service, such as a club, a class role or a community project.
- Think about a setback you overcame and what it taught you, without dwelling on hardship for sympathy.
- Read up on the scholarship body's aims so you can show how your goals fit theirs.
Common mistakes
- Reciting a memorised speech that falls apart when the panel follows up.
- Talking only about need and forgetting to show merit, drive and plans.
- Claiming leadership roles you cannot describe in any real detail.
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 5 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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