Interview Prep :)) Flashcards
What do you like the best about your current school?
key points:
- welcoming and friendly cohort
Why do you want to enrol in JMSS?
key points:
- passion + pursue a career, “not like many others”
- growth of jmss from 197 - 640 students (most of them being high achieving students)
- sci exhibition night (students/teachers, facilities, style + environment for learning)
- uniform/aesthetics
- skills/growth
- stepping stone to drown
- opportunities and experiences not at SHGC like EI + why, harmony day, battle of the bands, ICAS
Choose a modern technology item, engineering item etc that made an advancement in the last 50 years. How has it made an impact on the world?
If you do know, explain how your chosen item works.
key points:
- gene editing
- positive and negative impact
- elimination hereditary diseases + immune to chemical weapons
- using for the wrong weapons
- cutting DNA at location
- insert/delete sequences
- natural DNA repair processes
What are your hobbies? What does your typical weekend look like?
key points:
- reading, swimming, dancing and listening to music
- working
- meeting lena
- relax + self care
- organise
- 1-4 hrs of work/day (exams, homework - difficulty/amount)
What career are you considering in the future? What subjects do you have to choose in order to achieve it?
key points:
- oncology
- vce (chemistry, biology, English, methods, economics, Italian, extended investigation, uni extension)
Show us what you’re proud of in your report and what needs to be worked on.
key points:
- learning behaviours
- results across the board
- revising/sitting maths tests
Do you have any questions?
key points:
- yr 12 mentor program
- economics learning program
- debating
- right fit
- excel at JMSS advice
Why do you think we made you participate in the group activities?
key points:
- collaboration skills
- having important skills
- contributions to a team
What field of science are you interested in? what more can you tell us about it? (advancements in the field etc)
key points:
- gene testing (cancer)
- analyse tumours + mutations
- find and treat cancer (novel radiation)
- limit exposure to tissue
- treatment less painful
- eg blood samples while patient uses VR
Do you know what you want to do after high school? (future career)
key points:
- oncology
- work experience w peter downie @ monash children’s cancer centre
Tell me about:
Marie curie
Bert Vogelstein
Michael Bishop
Marie curie
- only person to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences
- she discovered radioactivity and changed the way the atom was understood
- not the best environment and she still did so much in her lifetime
Bert Vogelstein
- found that colorectal tumors result from the gradual accumulation of genetic alterations in specific oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes.
- he created a model for showing the formation of CRC which is the result of mutations in key genes
Michael Bishop
- discovered that different forms of cancer all arise from a common genetic mechanism involving specific genes present in the normal cells of many different species.
- Bishop and Varmus found that a gene similar to the cancer-causing gene within the virus was also present in healthy cells.
Tell me about oncology
key points:
- All types of cancer occur when cells in a part of the body grow out of control.
- early, mummies egypt, incurable
- oncologists ~ diagnosis, staging, aggressiveness, plan therapy (surgery, chemo, radiation)
- less aggressive case, chemotherapy
- Common symptoms of cancer are fatigue, weight loss, unexplained anemia ~ personal experience
- oncologists but surgeons, radiotherapists
- biopsy which is the extraction of cells to determine the presence of a disease
- LTF, 2-3 months, yearly, relapse, remission
- relapse means recurrence or return of the cancer while being in remission means remaining cancer-free. my eg
- 28% of deaths in Aus
- 1/3 men, 1/4 women experience before 75
What fields are you interested in?
key points:
- eng, chem, bio,
- eng ~ 100 story, creatives, editorial committee, now structured
- chem ~ i find it fun to learn, word to balanced equations
- bio ~ everything connects like a puzzle
Name 3 scientists and what they are known for?
Miller Hutchinson - invention of hearing aids
Joseph Murray - known for the first ever organ transplants
Jane Wright - know for her cancer research making her ‘mother of chemotherapy’
What subjects will you be taking next year?
key points:
- chem, bio ~ hands-on work
- methods ~ pre req for bachelor
- eng ~ excursions
- Italian ~ enjoyable, out of school
- extended investigation and uni extension - skills for future study
What makes you a more suitable candidate?
key points:
- leadership positions - vice captain, an eLeader, college ambassador, being a peer mentor, taking part in community service, debating, swimming, soirees, similar to those at JMSS
- grown and attain new skills
- qualities ~ resilience, the ability to work with others, being able to problem solve, being able to ask for guidance, willingness to share my knowledge with others
- my vision and vision of the school prioritises excellence, science and creative freedom.
What are your weaknesses?
key points:
- seeing others upset
- sensitivity, emotions strongly
- empathy better when helping others
- my sensitivity got the better of me when I helped a lady in the library who was struggling to print, she had some psychological issues and was pretending to offer me her entire wealth it was quite a frightening experience but looking back at i did all the right things to keep myself safe by informing the librarians and going back to my mum’s work which was nearby.
What subject do you enjoy most? Why?
key points:
- English, science second
- passion for debate
- struggle with persuasive + growth
- creative freedom
- general joy for learning when finally understanding something
What subject do you like least? Why?
key points:
- best ability
- nothing in particular, not artistic
How do you like to spend your free time?
key points:
- clean + organise = therapy
- work, read, listen to music, close friends
If I asked your friends to describe you, what would they say?
key points:
- helpful, funny, dependable, motivational, industrious + eg’s
What has been your biggest challenge?
key points:
- maths
- switching ways of learning and revising
What is your definition of a good teacher?
key points:
- welcoming, excited and passionate
- paces + ways
- see growth and achievement
- history teacher
What would you like to accomplish, academically or in extracurricular activities, during high school?
key points:
- high achiever of cohort, swimming competition, oncology (childhood), help others (science fields able to significantly), give back to charities (challenge, red kite, camp quality)
