IISMA INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (EXAMPLE)

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Mock Interviewer: Date: Time:

Questions Answer Notes Score

Essay 1
1. Can you tell me briefly about yourself, your name, your major, and your university?
2. How do you find your study so far? What is the most interesting course you have and
why?
3. What have you learned about your subject?
4. Why is your major still relevant for indonesia?
5. What organization that very interesting to you, and how does it shape you into you right
now?

Essay 2
1. What are your plans to engage with local and national communities during your study
abroad?
2. What activities would you like to do and why?
3. How is your research about your plan? (Feasibility, requirements, restrictions, eligibility)
4. Native people are known to be hard to approach, what will you do if you fail to approach
them?
5. How are you going to establish your international network upon your study and utilize it
for your career and for Indonesia?
6. Are you aware of potential culture shock that you might experience? How have you
prepared yourself?

Essay 3
1. Have you experienced academic challenges/problems during your study so far?
2. How do you deal with it? What lessons do you take from that experience?
3. What makes you stronger when you face hard times?
4. What is your biggest ambition in life?
5. Kesuksesan terbesar kamu dan cara mencapai sukses terbesar

Essay 4
1. How do you keep your health? What is your health to you?
2. You mentioned that you have a problem with your circadian rhythm. The hos country has
4 seasons, each season has a different time, it probably will impact your circadian rhythm.
What will you do to cope with that?
3. You mentioned that you experienced burn out, what will you do to cope with that in the
host country?
4. How are you going to cope with different seasons in country X?
5. What culture shock that might happen when living in your chosen host country?
6. Are you aware of potential culture shock that you might experience? How have you
prepared yourself?

Extra Questions
1. What do you think about IISMA?
2. In what ways can you contribute back for this program? in your university, in your future
life?
3. Why do you choose the host country?
4. Why do you choose University X and University Y?
5. Why do you choose the courses?/ You are a X major student but you choose Z classes, are
you sure? Why?
Courses that I take for the University X:
a.
b.
c.
d.

For the the University Y:

a.
b.
c.
d.
5. Why do you choose IISMA as scholarship?
6. Why do you deserve this scholarship?/Why should IISMA choose you as an awardee?
7. Explain the meaning and application of IISMA's value in the real life.
8. Mengapa harus exchange ke luar negeri (ada program MBKM exchange dalam negeri)?
9. How will IISMA help you achieve your goals?

Case Studies
1. If you are granted as an awardee and you get sick in the host country, what will you do?
2. If you feeling home sick in the host country and want to go home what will you do?
3. If the course you chose is not as what you expected and is very hard what will you do?
4. If you ran out of money or your money got stolen in the host country what will you do?
5. If your parent dies when you were abroad what will you do?
6. What will you do if you were told to take off your hijab?
7. If you go to a developed country to study, how would you use the knowledge you get and
implement it in Indonesia?
8. X’s education system is different from Indonesia’s. How well do you know this and how
have you prepared yourself?
9. Indonesia has had a lot of experts in your area. How do you see you will be able to make a
difference?
10. If you could give criticism to Indonesia’s current situation, what would it be?
11. How you describe a good citizen?
12. Apa kontribusi kamu untuk Indonesia sebagai negara di ring of fire?