考博英语面试问题

Personal/Professional

1.

Tell me about yourself. Use three words to describe you.

2.

How did you become interested in psychology?

How did you become interested in (specific

interest area)?

3.

What would you be doing if you were not in psychology

？

4.

What are your personal strengths?

5.

What are your personal weaknesses?

What have you done to deal with your shortcomings?

6.

What are your goals after graduate school?

In 5 years?

10 years?

7.

What do you have to contribute to us?

8. Why should we accept you over other equally qualified candidates?

9.

What do you do in your spare time?

To relax?

10.

Tell me about your interest in this area (geography)?

11. Describe the most embarrassing moment in your life.

12. How do you deal with conflict/stress?

13. What would a therapist say the most difficult thing about you?

14. What would a therapist say the best thing about you?

15. What difficulties have you encountered as an international student?

16. What you can bring to the cohort?

17. What do you like to do in your free time?

18. If you can write a book today, what would you write?

19. Tell me a time you are stressed out, and how you deal with it?

20. Tell me something that does not show on your application.

21. If you can have dinner and conversation with an celebraty, who would it want to be and why?

What would you ask him?

22.

What is the #1 question you would like me to ask you?

Research

1.

What would be your ideal research topic?

2. What are your research interests?

How did you get interested in this topic?

3.

What is the clinical relevance of your research?

4.

How do you describe the relationship of research and practice?

Clinical

1. What population do you want to work with and why?

2. What population have you worked with before?

3.

What do you think would be your greatest strength as a therapist?

4.

What about clinical work do you enjoy most?

5.

What about clinical work do you enjoy least?

6. Talk about a case that you think you did a good job and why, and explain what you learned from

it.

7. Talk about a case that you think you did not do a good job and why.

8.

What is your theoretical orientation?

What do you think of _____ approach?