Guest Massari Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 Hey, I always come across this question on most of the websites and interviews. What would you do if a friend calls you the night before an exam and asks you for help? I always thought you alot a certain amount of time to help your friend and study. Or would you put your friend off till you exam is over? The latter answer shows that you are dedicated to your studies, however, it makes you look like a cut throat ass. The former answer makes you appear to be ill focused. How would you answer that question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FullMetalDS Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 honestly tho, without regard of what the interviewers may think, what would you do? not trying to be an ass or nething but usually people have it in themselves a very reasonable way of dealing with these situations... what are ur priorities and how do you enforce them? if a friend came to you wanting to slit his wrist, would you still feel like studying? if a friend came to you to vent about bombing a recent exam, would you follow suit by spending precious study time to console him/her? i just think the situation needs to be further specified, cuz ur reaction probably depends on the seriousness of the matter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Massari Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 Yeah your right, the answer is not that clear cut as I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adversary Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 I do not think they are ever clearcut. The questions are used to assess how you weight situations and ideally find a balance between all the different objectives. Like life, the situations are not black and white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dent08 Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 That is the whole point of an interview question. If it were just a simple yes or no question with one answer being right and the other being wrong, they would have just given you a multiple choice exam rather than an interview. Why is the person coming to you the night before the exam? Have they done this before? Are they alway cramming? Are there personal issues in this person's life that are interfering with their studying? And on ... and on ... Posting a question here and asking for the answer is missing the whole point of the interview. You are not getting marked on your answer, but instead, how you got to that answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aplusdent Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Dent08...you mention that we are being evaluated on how we get to an answer and not necessarily the answer itself. In that case, is it beneficial to "think out loud" and tell the interviewers your thinking process and how you would deal with the situation? That way you could rephrase the sentence which would allow you a few seconds to come up with a process of answering the question thoroughly. So you could go through a whole chain of steps to solving a problem and not actually come up with a concrete answer?? right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Massari Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 The interviewers can see through the bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dent08 Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Exactly Aplusdent. Doing what you described in a concise manner would be a great approach. You do want to give them an answer, but the most important thing is showing them how you got there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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