Student excellence award practice interview

Academic excellence, leadership and service, character, personal growth and communication. Practise the 5 questions selection panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.

Practise this interview free

Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.

15 minutes
5 questions
Scored feedback on paid plans

About the award

A student excellence award interview helps a school or organisation choose a student who stands out across academics, leadership, service and character. The panel wants to hear how you have grown, what drives you, how you have helped others and how clearly you can talk about your own journey.

How to prepare

Pick three achievements across studies, leadership and service and know the story behind each.
Think about a challenge that changed you and what you do differently because of it.
Practise speaking about yourself with confidence but without boasting.
Be ready to say what you will do next and how the award fits into it.

Common mistakes

Listing achievements without explaining what you learned or why they matter.
Being so modest that the panel cannot see what you did.
Giving rehearsed answers that sound the same as every other candidate.

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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