Here are some potential Erasmus student exchange interview questions for you:
- Do you think you will contribute to the class at the hosting university if you are accepted to the Erasmus programme? How?
- Have you ever made any cultural mistakes? What mistakes do visitors to your country sometimes make?
- Please describe the proudest moment of your life.
- What actions should be taken to improve road safety?
- According to you what is the greatest achievement of the decade? Explain why you think so.
- Why do young people increasingly tend to live with their parents till later in life?
- How do you think the Erasmus experience will contribute to your education / to your future life?
- How do media influence the understanding of beauty?
- What skills and qualifications do people need to get a good job?
- How are the lives of youth today different from those of previous generations?
- What building or buildings do you consider to be iconic? Why?
- What makes you a good candidate for exchange program?
- Do you agree with this statement? ‘People are basically the same all over the world. It is not essential to be aware of other people’s cultures.’
- Do you want to be an official resident in a foreign country? Why/Why not?
- In what ways have people’s attitudes to food changed over recent years?
- How do you feel about the quality of driving in your country?
- What are your greatest achievements?
- In ten years, where would you like to be living and what would you like to be doing?
- What do you hope to get out of being an exchange student?
- Do you think that the rapid rate of technological development has improved our lives? Why? Why not?
- What aspects of other cultures do you admire? Why?
- What experience in your life has influenced you the most or changed the way you think? Why?
- What do you rate as your greatest personal strengths and weaknesses?
- Soon, medical advances will allow people to live to a very old age. Is this desirable? Why / Why not?
- In what ways, do you want to benefit from the Erasmus program?
- As an exchange student, you’d be an ambassador for your home country. How could you be a good ambassador for your home country?
- What are the typical features of your own national culture? What do you imagine people from other cultures would say about it?
- How do you use the internet to make new contacts in your field of studies or work?
- How are people’s spending habits influenced by the media?
- Exchange students usually encounter a range of situations which test their stamina. What are the challenges you might encounter during your stay?
- ‘Women have the primary responsibility for bringing up children.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement?
- Do you think that it is essential to get a degree in today´s society?
- Should new drugs be tested on both animals and humans before being prescribed by doctors?
- How do you keep up to date with trends and business issues?
- Would you prefer to stay with a host family? What kind of problems might you encounter if you stay with a host family? How would you solve them?
- What does experiencing life to the fullest mean to you?
- Why are you interested in doing an exchange in your chosen country?
- Do you agree with the following quote? ‘A fish only discovers its need for water when it is no longer in it. Our own culture is like water to a fish. It sustains us. We live and breathe through it.’
- How do peer pressure and bullying appear in our society? What can be done to prevent them?
- What do you hope for your country in terms of health and society? Please tell me about your expectations for the next fifty years?
- Please describe the most important historical event in your country.
- Would you have any problems with being placed in a small, isolated town in your host country, in a rural or remote area?
- What do you think makes an effective team? What sort of people do you need in an effective team?
- How is the increased use of mobile technology and social networks changing the way people think and behave?
- What kind of cultural differences do you think you will experience when you go abroad?
- What part of your routine do you consider to be a complete waste of time?
- What do you think the hardest adjustment that you will have to make is when you go abroad?
- What is the key to a person´s happiness?
- How do you evaluate a website’s reliability?
- What problems could arise when people from different countries have to work together in a global team?