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How do I prepare for my interview Q&A?

I'm a Tutor article! Learn what to expect in your interview Q&A and how to prepare using the practice questions below.

During your interview, you'll complete a Q&A where you'll demonstrate how you'd teach a pupil. You'll answer one subject-specific question and explain how you'd help a pupil understand the topic.

Most MyTutor tutors support GCSE and A-Level pupils to prepare for their exams. Some of this work includes helping pupils with exam-style questions, as well as covering the course content they need to answer them.

To prepare for your Q&A, choose one question from a subject you intend to tutor and practise how you would teach it to a pupil.

English GCSE

  • What is the difference between form and structure in poetry?

  • How does Shakespeare present Lady Macbeth as a powerful woman?

  • How does the poet use language to present war in the stanza below?

Three days before Armistice Sunday

and poppies had already been placed

on individual war graves. Before you left,

I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals,

spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade

of yellow bias binding around your blazer.

Maths GCSE

  • The first five terms of an arithmetic sequence are:

    3 7 11 15 19

    Explain how to find the expression, in terms of n, for the nth term of this sequence.

  • How can I identify triangles that are congruent and similar to each other?

  • What is 0.65 as a fraction? Give your answer in its simplest form.

  • Find the value of 64^-1/2

Science GCSE

  • Explain how a stimulus can result in a reflex reaction

  • Describe the difference between an animal cell and a plant cell

  • Explain how pressure can affect the rate of reaction

  • Explain how fractional distillation separates crude oil into fractions

  • Describe the difference between longitudinal waves and transverse waves

  • Explain how you would find the answer to the following question: A woman has a mass of 80kg and climbs to the top of a ladder which is 8m high. How much gravitational potential energy has the woman gained where g = 10 N/kg?

Psychology GCSE

  • Evaluate the multi-store model of memory, looking at strengths and weaknesses

History GCSE

  • Describe two problems Hitler faced when establishing his dictatorship after January 1933

  • Describe two features of government in Early Elizabethan England.

Sociology GCSE

  • Identify and explain one disadvantage of using official statistics to understand the extent of crime committed by women.

Business Studies GCSE

  • State and explain two financial methods of rewarding employees.

Economics GCSE

  • Analyse the impact of a rise in interest rates on consumer spending

Foreign Language GCSE (can apply to any language)

  • How would you teach the conjugation of the verb "to be" in the target language?

Geography GCSE

  • Explain the causes and effects of tropical storms.

Tips for your interview Q&A

Imagine you’re teaching a pupil in a real lesson. We know it can feel a little unusual at first, but the more you approach the Q&A as a live tutoring session, the easier it is for your teaching skills to come across clearly.

Good luck!

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