Interview simulator

Rehearse your interview out loud.

Practise the interview your university actually holds, in its format and its language. Prepare against the clock, answer aloud, then read a report that marks your answer on that question's own criteria.

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Included with the Complete Admissions System of every university that interviews.

The reading room: the question, your preparation time and how to structure the answer.
universities with interview practice
22
interview formats
4
graded answers a day
10

Formats

Your university's interview, not a generic one

Universities do not interview the same way. Of the 22 universities with interview practice on IvyTest, 2 run a true MMI circuit. The others hold a personal or panel interview, an oral science exam or a written interview. The simulator follows the format of the university you prepare for.

Written interview

Judgement scenarios answered in writing, against the clock.

In the simulator

You type your answer in a timed box. No microphone. It is marked like a spoken answer.

Universities

Personal or panel interview

One conversation with an examiner or a panel about your motivation, your experience and how you think. At some universities it includes Biology and Chemistry questions.

In the simulator

The questions that interview asks, one at a time, science questions included where the university asks them.

Personal interview

Panel interview

Interview and science questions

The other 30 universities IvyTest covers have no interview practice. Their Complete Admissions System prepares the written test.

All universities

The questions

Written for each university's format

Every university with interview practice has its own set of questions. IvyTest writes them for the format the university publishes. They are practice questions, not official, leaked or remembered ones.

  • Grouped by what they test

    Motivation, ethics, teamwork, a science topic: pick by competency and see each question's timing before you start.

  • The format's timing

    Each question keeps the preparation and answer time of the interview it was written for.

  • The interview's language

    Where the interview is held in German or Spanish, so are its questions, with an English translation one tap away. Your answer is transcribed in that language.

  • Its own marking criteria

    Every question carries the criteria it is marked on, each with a weight and a note of what a strong answer shows.

Built-in stations

The simulator also holds 21 interview stations and 16 science viva questions of its own. The demo runs on these, and they stand in if a university's set cannot be loaded. Each gives 2 minutes to prepare, and you choose 5 or 7 minutes to answer.

A session

From the question to the report

One question per sitting, timed like the real one.

  1. 01

    Choose a question

    Pick one from your university's set. Each question shows how long you have to prepare and to answer.

  2. 02

    Prepare in the reading room

    The question, a countdown and three pointers on how to structure this type of answer. The microphone stays off. Start early if you are ready.

  3. 03

    Agree to the recording

    Before you answer, you are told what is recorded and who processes it. The browser asks for the microphone only after you agree.

  4. 04

    Answer aloud

    A timer runs for the answer time. Speak as you would to the panel. Finish early if you are done; at zero, your answer is sent on its own.

  5. 05

    Read your report

    When the marking is done, the report opens: your score, feedback on every criterion and a model answer.

For a written interview you type into a timed box with a word count instead. No microphone, no recording.

In the demo you can sit a whole station. The report is shown locked, because the demo sends nothing to be marked.

Try a station in the demo

Marking

Marked on the question's own criteria

  1. Your recording is transcribed. A written answer is read as you typed it.

  2. Jade, IvyTest's AI tutor, reads the transcript against the question's criteria and marks each one out of 10. It is told to mark strictly: an average answer gets 4 to 6 on each.

  3. Your score out of 100 is calculated from those marks and their weights.

  4. An answer in German or Spanish is marked on what you said, never for not speaking English. The feedback is written in the language you use IvyTest in.

What the report holds

  • A score out of 100 and a short verdict
  • Each criterion with its weight, its mark, feedback, strengths and what to improve
  • Your transcript, with its strong and weak passages marked
  • A model answer to the same question
Interview ReportEthical dilemma

Global Score · Feedback by Jade

The Colleague at Risk

You put patient safety first and stayed kind to your colleague, but never said whom you would go to if talking to her changed nothing.

Pillar Breakdown

  • Ethical and deontological competence · Weight: 30%7/10
  • Structure and logical clarity · Weight: 30%6/10
  • Empathy and professionalism · Weight: 25%8/10
  • Time management · Weight: 15%5/10

To Improve

Name the next step: a senior colleague or the clinical lead, if the conversation does not work.

Transcript Analysis

Strong point / insightWeak point / missed opportunity

My first concern is the patients: a dose that was nearly wrong is a safety issue, not a private one. I would speak to her privately, tell her what I have noticed and ask how she is. If nothing changed, I think I would just keep an eye on it.

The Perfect Answer: 100/100 Benchmark

A top answer starts from patient safety, then keeps the colleague's wellbeing apart from the risk to patients: speak to her privately first, and go to a senior colleague or the clinical lead if it happens again.

An example report on a built-in ethics station, with illustrative marks. Your words and the model answer stay in the language of the interview.

After the report

  • Ask Jade

    Ask why you lost marks on a criterion or how to open your answer better. Jade answers about that attempt only.

  • Your past attempts

    Your recent attempts at each university stay in your account. Open one to read its full report again.

  • Your progress

    A chart of your scores over your last ten attempts, kept in this browser.

Criteria

What each kind of question is marked on

Your university's questions carry their own criteria. The built-in stations are marked by kind of question, and this is how their 100 points divide.

Reasoning through a conflict of medical-ethics principles to a position you can defend.

  • Ethical and deontological competence30 points
  • Structure and logical clarity30 points
  • Empathy and professionalism25 points
  • Time management15 points

Privacy and limits

Your recording is not kept

Transcription and marking run on OpenAI's models. This is what happens to what you say.

Your answers

  • IvyTest never stores your recording. OpenAI transcribes it and may keep it for up to 30 days to check for misuse, then deletes it.
  • Your transcript and report are saved to your account, and only you can see them. You can delete your whole interview history from the simulator.
  • Your answers are not used to train any AI model.

Limits

  • 10 graded answers a day per account. After that you can keep practising, but answers are not graded again until the next day.
  • No invented scores. When an answer cannot be graded, the screen says why (nothing was heard, the day's allowance is used, or a fault on our side) and keeps your answer. After a fault you can send it again.
  • The score is Jade's reading of your answer against the criteria. It is not an examiner's mark, and it does not predict whether you will be admitted.

Access

Comes with your university's Complete Admissions System

Interview practice is part of the Complete Admissions System of each university that interviews: one payment for 12 months, with everything for that university. Try the simulator in the demo first.

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