Describe a person who wants to work in the medical field

The cue card

• You should say: who they are
• You should say: what medical work they want to do
• You should say: why they want to do it
• You should say: and explain how you feel about their ambition

How to answer it

Pick someone real and specific — a cousin revising for entrance exams, a friend who volunteers at a clinic — because the 'why' bullet is where invented people collapse. Give the ambition a concrete cause: a relative who was ill, a school placement, a documentary. The final bullet asks for your opinion, so take a position: admiration plus one honest reservation about the hours or the cost of training is a richer answer than pure praise.

What moves the band

• Career language pays here: qualify as, specialise in, do a residency, be on call, a demanding but rewarding field.
• The Part 3 questions are policy questions. Answer them as policy — cost, fairness, workforce shortages — not as more description of your cousin.

Part 3 questions reported with it

Part 3 follows the topic of the cue card, so these are the discussion questions the same candidates were asked next.

• Why do many young people avoid studying medicine?
• Should governments pay for medical students' training?
• Is it fair that doctors earn more than nurses?