I understand that the average interview score for interviewed applicants is ~28/35 for some schools.
I'm just looking at some interview questions and I'm thinking for a lot of scenarios that my answers are similar to what an average normal individual would do, i.e. show integrity, sensitivity, good judgement etc.. So i'm starting to worry that normal common sense answers just aren't good enough.
Here is someone's idea about answering the questions:
"Rather than trying to think of something else that hasn't been said, just take your time and really think things through. Think from all the perspectives involved and consequences of your actions. A well thought out and well articulated answer will follow. What WOULD you do given that situation? I think that if you try to say things that you think they will want to hear, you may come off insincere and rehearsed. They want to get to know you!"
I think it is impossible to have all the time to think very well during interviews. Looks like people that have done beforehand research on the interview questions made it through. So, I have a request: if you are willing to join in and share the cost of an interview pack with explained questions, please pm me asap.
During the CDA interview for UofT the following were confirmed by other students to be true.
1. they usually ask about 3-4 behavioural and 3-4 situational
2. when answering a question, you want to hit as many competencies as possible. Say you only hit 1 or 2 competencies for a given question, but you really hit them well with a great example, it gives you the same score as hitting 3-4 competencies with so-so examples.
3. For behavioural questions, if you get a question that you can't think of an example for, and you say something like "hmm I can't think of anything, but if that did happen to me I would do this...blah blah." you still get a decent score.
4. For those who used interview pack, if you go through all 200 behavioural questions you will pretty much be covered. You should expect to pretty much get the same questions from schools as the ones in the pack.
Again pm me with your email if interested. Knowing the questions and what competencies they cover is critical, there is no time to guess during the interview.Tnx.
