MSc finance admission practice interview
Financial reasoning, valuation foundations, market awareness and motivation for rigorous postgraduate finance study. Practise the 5 questions admissions 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 programme
This interview examines whether you can reason clearly about value, risk and financial decisions before starting advanced study. The panel is interested in quantitative readiness, awareness of how markets affect organisations, careful treatment of assumptions and a convincing purpose for the degree.
How to prepare
- Review time value of money, financial statements, risk and return, capital structure and basic valuation.
- Choose one financial model or analysis and identify its key assumptions and sensitivity to change.
- Follow a current market or economic development and trace its effect on a business decision.
- Practise explaining a finance concept to someone without specialist knowledge.
- Connect particular programme topics to gaps in your current knowledge and your intended work.
Common mistakes
- Memorising formulas without understanding the decisions they support.
- Presenting one valuation output as certain instead of discussing assumptions and sensitivity.
- Commenting on markets through headlines without tracing an effect on cash flow, risk or funding.
- Using a finance career label as motivation without explaining why the degree is needed.
What to expect
A real admissions interview
5 questions the way admissions 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 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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