melb foundation

mizi

Omg congrats, Last year when I did it they told me that there were 300 applicants and they called in 15 (your in the top 5% woohooo) to first round interviews (which was solo and included a maths test) and later had a second round (which consisted of family interviews but I think they only called 7 out of 15 to this round). They asked me standard interview questions, some of which were a bit strange like

• "why do you want to leave your school",
  -"did you go to tutoring in preparation for the selective exam",
  -"Did you make it into selective"
  -"what school will you be going to next year if not here"
  -"Have you ever been overseas, if so how many countries (try say something like "im very grateful that my parents really tried to give me the best experiences yadayada")
• "Do you have siblings?"
• "What was a difficult time in your life and how did you overcome it?" (I really struggled with this one but remember this isnt a therapy session its an interview)

These are just the ones I remember but yea also remember that this is a FOUNDATION interview, its by a charity so they typically want to give it to kids who can't afford a private school education otherwise (like this ties in a lot with the how many countries question, be honest about it but be humble, this is where i messed up ). Don't be intimidated they were really nice and friendly and its ok to be nervous just fake it till you make it ig