Questions Related to Social Skills or Interests:
- Give evidence that you relate well with others.
- Give an example of a leadership role you have assumed.
- Have you done any volunteer work?
- What would you do as Prime Minister of this country with respect to the persistent national debt?
- How would you address our country's constitutional crisis?
- What are the prospects for a lasting peace in South Africa? Eastern Europe? the former USSR? the Middle-East?
- What do you think of the free-trade agreement?
- Discuss your volunteer work.
- What are your strengths?
- What do you feel are the most important qualities in being a good doctor?
- What are your hobbies?
- Are you a leader or a follower? Why?
- Discuss a book that you recently read for pleasure. Why does this book interest you?
- What newspapers/journals do you read on a regular basis?
- Describe any travel you have undertaken and exposure to other cultures. What have you learned from these experiences?
- If you could invite three living persons to dinner on successive weeks, whom would you choose?
- What was the last movie you saw? What did you think of it?
- If you were stranded on an island, what three books would you have with you and why?
- What current events were reported on last night’s news?
- What person, past or present, would you most like to meet?
- If you could be any character in history, who would you be and why?
- What do you do in your spare time?