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For the interviews, if they ask you a question like why you want to do medicine, does your answer have to be similar/same as your personal statement or you are allowed to add beyond the personal statement and maybe mention something that wasn’t in the ps?

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Yazomi

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For the interviews, if they ask you a question like why you want to do medicine, does your answer have to be similar/same as your personal statement or you are allowed to add beyond the personal statement and maybe mention something that wasn’t in the ps?

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GANFYD

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Original post by Yazomi

For the interviews, if they ask you a question like why you want to do medicine, does your answer have to be similar/same as your personal statement or you are allowed to add beyond the personal statement and maybe mention something that wasn’t in the ps?

Well it isn't going to take 5 minutes to read out the line or two about this from your PS, but if you have mentioned your reasons in your PS, then basing your answer on this would automatically follow, would it not?

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becausethenight

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Original post by Yazomi

For the interviews, if they ask you a question like why you want to do medicine, does your answer have to be similar/same as your personal statement or you are allowed to add beyond the personal statement and maybe mention something that wasn’t in the ps?

Well, of course you can add things...? As @GANFYD says, reading two lines from your PS will not take up a whole MMI station, so you probably do need to go beyond it/elaborate a bit. At quite a few interviews now interviewers will not have read your PS (or even know anything about you potentially) so it's not like they'd know how consistent you were though!

Realistically though, I don't see why/how you would have two completely different answers, unless you'd made a very silly decision to make something up?

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