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PROTIP’S BEFORE STARTING THE INTERVIEW:

DO NOT GO BEYOND THE SCOPE OF VISA FILE. ONLY THE STUFF MENTIONED IN
YOUR VISA FILE IS REALITY FOR YOUR INTERVIEW.
DON’T SAY ANYTHING OR ANY WORD ABOUT WHICH YOU HAVE NO IDEA AND
HAVE NOT DONE ANY PREPARATION.
Never under any circumstance, should u mention that your consultant has asked you to choose
this university or program. Always mention it was your decision to choose Hungary, university
or program

Introduction
It can either be a direct question as introduce yourself, or they can ask in form of short questions like
1. What is your name
2. What is your age
3. Where do you live\where are you coming from
4. How many siblings you have
5. Names and age of your siblings
6. In which program you are applying for
7. Which university you are applying to
8. What is your father name
9. Title of your degree

Motivation
1. Why Hungary?
(Do not start with Hungary is a hot spot study abroad destination)
TO JUSTIFY THE SELECTION OF HUNGARY, IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU
HAVE A DEGREE PROGRAM IN MIND THAT YOU WILL PURSUE THERE. THE
ONLY REASON TO CHOOSE HUNGARY SHOULD BE FOR THE DEGREE
PROGRAM. IT SHOULD REVOLVE AROUND YOUR DEGREE.

2. Why this university/ How did u find out about this university?
(other than generic reasons, also incorporate some qualities of the program i.e. how the
selected program of your university is unique as compared to other universities)
3. Why this program and how this program will help you in your future, what kind of
skills you are expecting it to develop in you?
YOU NEED TO RELATE YOUR PREVIOUS DEGREE TO YOUR FUTURE DEGREE.
YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE SUBJECTS YOU HAVE STUDIED ARE
RELATED TO THE PREREQUISITES OF THIS DEGREE. ALSO, YOU NEED TO
EXPLAIN HOW THIS FUTURE DEGREE WILL UPGRADE YOU TOWARDS YOUR
FUTURE PLANS.

4. Why not in Pakistan/why do you want to study abroad?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS THAT WILL BE TAUGHT
IN THIS DEGREE PROGRAM IN PAKISTAN AND THE ONES THAT WILL BE
TAUGHT IN THE UNIVERSITY IN HUNGARY?
5. How this program is relevant to your previous education?
YOU NEED TO RELATE YOUR PREVIOUS DEGREE TO YOUR FUTURE DEGREE.
YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE SUBJECTS YOU HAVE STUDIED ARE
RELATED TO THE PREREQUISITES OF THIS DEGREE. ALSO, YOU NEED TO
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EXPLAIN HOW THIS FUTURE DEGREE WILL UPGRADE YOU TOWARDS YOUR
FUTURE PLANS.

6. WHY YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS DEGREE?

MENTION THE TAKE AWAYS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS DEGREE AND RELATE
IT WITH YOUR FUTURE MOTIVATION
7. What are your future plans ,
(you should know the designation name, company/companies and job description of the role
that you are applying for, what kind of salary that position is offering. In case of business,
you should know what kind of business do you want to start and what kind of scope that
business has to offer. In case you want to extend the father business, also explain how you
will do that and how this degree will enable you to do that)
Information
1. What do u know about Hungary?
Do not start with Hungary is a landlocked country
2. Name of your faculty
3. Define your program (READ COURSE DESCRIPTION FROM UNIVERSITY’S
OFFICIAL WEBSITE)
4. What do u know about city?(check information of city from google and explain it in
your words)
5. Famous thing of city(check what that city is famous for)
6. Temperature of the city (check temperature from google)
7. What do you know about university
(its location, address, its programs, ranking, if it has any research centers, faculties,
departments, number of students if mentioned, awards, rankings etc.?)

8. What do u know about program

(start with the definition and what does that field deals with, aim of the program, the kind of subjects
and specialization that program is offering, faculty of program, duration of program, credit hours of
program, some subjects of the program, what kind of careers one can get into after studying this
program)

9. Name of Hungarian universities are offering this program? (WHAT ARE THE
REASONS FOR NOT CHOOSING IT)
10. Name of Pakistani universities are offering this program? (WHAT ARE THE REASONS
FOR NOT CHOOSING IT)
11. Scopes and outcomes of the program?
12. Neighboring countries of Hungary
Slovenia, Ukraine, Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia
Future plans
1. What will u do after your studies?
(For bachelors students) what have u thought about masters (you can say that right now my main
focus is to complete bachelors, however if I will get a good opportunity for masters after gaining
some professional experience, I will think about that. But right now, my whole focus is on completing
my bachelor’s degree)

2. Would you like to do a job In Hungary during your studies? (TRY TO SAY NO, OR ONLY
FOR HAVING EXPOSURE OF INTERNATIONAL DEALING ETC)
3. Would you like to do a job in Hungary after the studies? (TRY TO SAY NO AND YOUR
FUTURE PLAN THAT YOU HAVE MADE EARLIER)
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4. If you will not receive a visa, what will u do in Pakistan? (You can tell that without wasting
anytime, I will look for some suitable opportunities here in Pakistan in case of refusal. However,
according to embassy decision, I will improve my file and apply again for the visa.)

5. In which European country would you like to job, if yes, then where?

Again you will mention that it’s not your plan to get settled in any European country. You want to
come back to your country after completion of your studies and do a job/business here in Pakistan
Financial Matters (will prepare after receiving visa file)
1. Who is your financial sponsor
2. If job (what are roles and responsibilities)
If father (what does he do, his monthly income, in euros and PKR, some questions regarding his
nature of business or job)
If yourself (how did u get money, source of income, savings both in PKR and euros?)
If brother/sister… why not father and their income related questions
Questions from Affidavit
2. Who has paid your tuition fee in PKR, EURO (mention the name of the person who went to bank
i.e. mentioned on swift copy and the name of the person who is paying for it?)
3. Through which bank
Consultant related
In case you are telling about the consultant?
1. Did you hire any consultant?
If you are telling about consultant mention full name, name of firm, address of the firm)
2. How did you find out about this consultant? (You can tell them that I have come to know
about this consultant through social media. I have attended their live sessions and webinars.
OR YOU CAN MENTION THAT I GOT DETAILS FROM UNIVERSITY’S WEBSITE
3. How was your experience with them? (Always tell positive things like my experience with
them has been really great. They have guided me throughout the process very well. I found
them honest, reliable and highly professional)
4. Why did you decide to proceed with ARSA? (MENTION THE QUALITIES THAT YOU
FOUND)

When I visited them. I liked their style of guiding the students and I found them reliable after
evaluating their profile. Hence, I decided to proceed my case with ARSA

5. Why did u take help of the consultants when you can prepare your visa file yourself?
You can tell them that Visa process is a complicated process including a lot of
documentation. I did not want to make any mistake which will lead to the refusal of my visa.
Hence, I decided to seek professional help and hired a consultant.

NEVER MENTION THAT SOMEONE HAS RECOMMENDED YOU. JUST SAY YOU WERE
VISITING CONSULTANCY FIRMS FOR YOUR STUDY ABROAD

If you are not mentioning the consultant: then

1. Who helped you to prepare your visa file
2. From where did you take guidelines of visa file preparation
3. What was your admission and visa process

Previous Interview Related Questions

1. Have you ever appeared in any interview or admission test before?(here u should be telling
about the interview/admission test that was conducted by the university )
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2. How was your experience

Here you should always mention positive things like you can say (My experience with
university interview has been amazing. In the beginning I was nervous, However the
interviewer was very friendly, and she made me feel comfortable)
3. What kind of questions did they ask (only talk about those questions you remember)?
4. Were you nervous regarding your interview
Diploma related questions (if any)
1. What did u learn during your diploma/tell me something about your diploma
2. Title of diploma
3. Institute where u did diploma
Job Experience (if any)
1. Where did u did the job
2. What were your roles and responsibilities?
3. How much you were earning from this job?
4. For how long did u do the job?
5. What did u do in your gap (if any)?
Friend or relative in Europe
1. Do u have any friend of relative in Europe
2. (If yes)which country are they living in
3. What kind of job they are doing
4. How long have they been staying there
5. Which city they are living
6. Do u know their address
7. How often they will visit you
8. How often you will visit them
9. Why you are not going to their country for study?
VISA File
1. Who prepared your visa file (Tell that you have prepared your file yourself with the help or
guideline from your consultant)
They may ask just to confuse you that your document is missing, you can simply ask them for file
so that you can look for the documentyourself. (MAKE SURE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE
DOCS SO THAT YOU KNOW WHAT MISSING DOCUMENT THEY ARE TALKING
ABOUT) DO NOT GET NERVOUS IF IT HAPPENS
Questions about your transport and Accommodation in Hungary?

If your accommodation and university is in Budapest

How are you planning to travel from airport to your accommodation?
You can tell that
 I will book the cab from airport to accommodation. In case visa officer asks
that the cab will be expensive, you can tell that , I know the cab will be
expensive, However I am not familiar with country, city or language so I
don’t want to get lost

 Alternatively, you can tell them that I will take public transport to reach my
destination. (From google maps,1. put the name of airport in departure
place, 2. put the name of your dormitory in the destination, 3. click on the
train sign, you will get the travelling options below. 100E or 200E are the
airport buses )
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Name and address of accommodation, duration of accommodation. per month cost

2. If University is NOT in Budapest
 How are you planning to travel between Budapest to your city
You can check your travelling options from the website https://www.rome2rio.com/
Here you can find travelling options, travelling cost, travelling time and travelling
distance
OR
You can tell that , from airport I will take airport bus that will take me to metro
station, from where I can go to train station and will then catch the train from
there.(Famous train stations are KELETI pyludvar, NyugatiPyludvar, Deli
pyludvar.Keleti is most common and the closest train station)
This image search is just an example
City search
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Travelling options and cost

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Travelling distance and time

You should know the name, address and cost of your accommodation

If University is not offering Accommodation:

2. Have you booked your accommodation?

3. How will you travel from accommodation to university? Why have you chosen an
accommodation far away from university?
4. It’s compulsory to book 3 month accommodation there so why you booked only
for one month?
5. Why have you booked co-accommodation?
6. Why have you booked so expensive accommodation?
YOU CAN MENTION THAT IT IS JUST FOR A MONTH, WHILE STAYING HERE IT IS
DIFFICULT TO ARRANGE AN APPROPRIATE ACCOMMODATION HOWEVER, YOU HAVE
BOOKED IT FOR SHORT TERM AND U WLL FIND AN APPROPRIATE ACCOMMODATION
WHEN YOU WILL GET THERE.
6. Is your university providing you accommodation?
7. Why uni accommodation is for one month?
8. which website did you use to book the accommodation

Previous study related

1. Name any five subjects that you have studied in previous studies?
2. What was your most favorite subject?
Which subjects were your most favorite and why (make sure to mention the subjects that you can
speak about)

Regarding previous refusals

1. Do u have a previous refusals
2. What were the reasons of your refusal
3. HAVE THE REASONS FOR THESE REFUSALS BEEN ELIMINATED? HAVE ANY
MEASURES BEEN TAKEN?

Bank statement:,
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1. Which bank, which branch

If the bank is not from the same person who is sponsoring you they may ask question relevant to
it.
They may ask question if your bank statement is lower than required.

General Questions
1. Name of different organizations/firms/institutions/companies, where you can work after
coming back
2. Did u contact any university student to gather the information regarding university?
3. Passport number?
4. CNIC number?`
5. Father CNIC number?
6. Date of birth?
7. Living expenses in CITY in which you are going to (For Budapest, you can mention living
expenses between 500 to 550 euros, for rest of the cities you can mention 400 to 450 euros)
8. Age of your siblings /Job status (only mention those who are mentioned on FRC )
9. Fee per year/ per semester euros
10. If father is alive, why he is not sponsoring?
11. Tell the name of subjects you are going to study?(check the subjects from website)
12. Which specialization are you going to choose if is being offered
13. What was the euro\forint rate when you wrote Affidavit of Support? (divide Forint amount on
PKR amount to find how much 1pkr is equivalent to )
14. Halal Foods
You can tell that there are a lot of halal meat shops available in every cities of hungary from
where I can buy the halal meat and cook for myself, there are also halal food Arabic or
Turkish restaurants available where I can dine out. I can also order vegetarian or sea food
where halal options are not available
15. What kind of difficulties u can face in Hungary
In my opinion, language barrier can be a problem as I am unfamiliar with Hungarian
language
16. In case of sickness what would u do
In case of sickness, I would like to use my health insurance to book an appointment with the
doctor (you should know the name of the insurance company and duration of insurance)
17. Do u know how to cook
If you can cook tell them that I can cook and you should know the name of few dishes. If you
cannot cook, you can tell that you cannot cook, however you can follow recipes
18. What was your admission process
19. What does BBA \MBA\BSCS\MSCS\IBS\LLM stands for?
20. What is the official website of the university
21. ASSESSMENT METHOD OF UNIVERSITY
University usually use the five-way scale of evaluation for studies and examinations with GPA
between 1 to 5. It is a credit based system, In the credit based system the teaching of a subject
is usually concluded with a mid-term or examination mark.
22. CAMPUSES of the university
23. When your degree is starting

24. When your degree is ending

25. How you will manage weather in Hungary

You can say that summer is hot over there just like Pakistan so I think I am already adapted
to the hot weather. However, winters are comparatively colder than Pakistan. But I have
searched that the buildings in Hungary are centrally heated so indoors will not be a problem.
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However, in the outdoors, I will wear warm layered clothes and shoes and will try drinking
plenty of hot beverages

Guiding BBA and MBA student regarding their embassy test for
business and maths