Scholarships are rewards to seekers. It’s like the element a miner sees and celebrate it. Moreover, the hilarious part of scholarships, though it isn’t quite funny, is that it’s in phases. Although they don’t have to be stipulated in allotted age-range. Yet, they come in different phases of educational level.
Once an individual leaves a phase, another phase unravels. Apparently, that is why it’s expedient that aspirants should get used to their preferred scholarships on time so that they won’t fall victim. Rather, they are supposed to serve as leverages in attaining higher heights. The story goes haywire in spite of their excellent academic proofs.
Some even have their CVs well written impeccably. However, the very phase many missed it is at this interrogation part. Incapability to handle questions rightly has handed many elites in their prime an early defeat. Notwithstanding, we’ll be providing you with 5 popular questions interviewers don’t do without. See how you’re to answer them.
- Introduce Yourself in 5min
This is the plot where the interviewer wants to know what questions to ask in furtherance of the interview. He/she wants to know if you stutter words or not. Interviewer keens to know whether you’re aware of what was written in your CV or not.
Besides, 5min is a whole lot of time to introduce barely your name. Instead, what the interviewer wants to hear is your drive and how it synchronizes with the vision of the host. For instance, check out someone else’s response below:
Hi, my name is Beverly Taylor. I reside in the UK. Basically, I’m hailed from Birmingham, though I spent a large part of my life in North London. Ever since the time I was younger, I’ve always being so exploring.
At some points, I knew I’d study Anthropology. Don’t blame it on me though, I just love humans. However, when time passes by and sun shun in my way, I saw that I could be a psychologist and achieve whatsoever I really cared for. Now, stirring at you, Mr. Interviewer, appreciating your Gucci hairdo.
I might have thought, “Gosh! Why not blonde” but sincerely speaking, hearing the way you talk while you banter with someone over there made me realize there’s more to people than the empirical part we see at the initial glance. So, you see why I took psychology in the first place? I knew that this organization could get my dreams from a neverland to the belt of my heart right here.
2. How Did You Hear about Us
Interviewers want to see if you’ve never known the goal of why the organizations are spending millions of funds to assist students. Conventionally, when a reason isn’t well solidified, essence and values aren’t gonna be kept for so long: so, he wants to know.
On another note, it could be for statistical reasons. Whatsoever the case may be, eventually, you’ll still need to compose. You can say this:
“I’ve been line-tracking with this company for years now. If my memory doesn’t fail me, I think about six years now. Remember when it came out in news that 6,000 beneficiaries were stranded in Ukraine after the war broke out.
I fell in love when the then-CEO, Late Godswill Her, signed a treaty which cost the company thousands of USD to haul the stranded students back home. I knew right from there, I’m right with this scholarship provider because they care.” (This is better when you are surrounded by a group of interviewers who award marks),
3, Are You on a Scholarship at the Moment or You Look Out Seeking Another?
The answer for this is always in capital NO. Even when you’re on a scholarship, you’ll still have to say NO. saying a YES automatically disqualifies you.
It shows you are very smart and you get whatsoever you want while others are out there anguishing for one. So, in other for you to avoid this sideline, just give a NO as the answer. Moreover, all other scholarships drop once you generate your transcript from the school you’re presently at. So, why putting your future impasse when you can forge ahead with a NO.
4. How Would Your Community Benefit from You When You are Done?
You’ll always start by referencing the organizers. Always tell them sizzling statements that would spur their anticipations. Don’t tell the interviewers what you stand to benefit. Rather, tell them what they stand to gain sponsoring you and you intend provoking the love of your community to loving the sponsor. You can say this:
“Yea, it’ll definitely be an experience I will be revered for the rest of my life and the heart of my community will feel it. Just as you know that I’m from a small village in Kumasi, Ghana. Even while schooling abroad, I’d already spoken to my dad to build a borehole for my compatriots so that children would stop dying.
Of course, the name of this organization will always be at epitaph of any project I complete intermittently. Look at what I did for my village when I was an undergraduate. Though the funds were small, I bought printed clothes for 50 children and paid one out of three terms they had. See the pictures I took here. So, how much more!”
5. How Would You Represent Your Scholarship Sponsors abroad?
Of course, you’re expected to stand so positive. You really don’t have to overly or anxiously boast of what you are capable of doing. Always be boastful of your past records because that would be the opened gate to your next opportunity.