Auckland MMI practice questions: ten example stations
ten example MMI stations in the Auckland style, one for each kind of thing you get asked. they are written by us, not recalled from a real interview, and there are no real Auckland questions in public anywhere. what they are good for is the actual skill: reading a stem cold, deciding what it is really asking, and talking for three minutes without a script.
what a station is, at Auckland, now
the interview is recorded rather than live. a stem appears, you get 30 seconds to read and think, then 3 minutes to answer to a webcam, in one take, with no interviewer reacting and no second attempt. the format, in full.
that changes what good practice looks like. reading example questions and imagining an answer trains almost none of it, because the hard parts are the silence, the clock, and the fact that your first sentence is the one that gets recorded. read these ten, then say one out loud on camera and watch it back.
ten example stations
- station 01equityexample
a free flu vaccination drive runs only at large city pharmacies, on weekdays, during work hours. who is most likely to miss out, and what would you change so the same effort actually reaches them?
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 02equityexample
a hospital lets patients book and reschedule appointments through an app. uptake is high in some neighbourhoods and near zero in others. what might explain the gap, and how would you respond to it?
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 03moral / ethicalexample
a classmate asks you to sign them in to a compulsory session they are going to skip, promising to catch up on the material later. what do you do, and how do you weigh it up?
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 04moral / ethicalexample
an older relative asks you not to tell the rest of the family about a health diagnosis. weeks later, a family member asks you directly whether something is wrong. talk us through how you think about it.
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 05career choiceexample
someone tells you the profession you are applying for is "just a stepping stone to medicine". how do you respond, and what does your answer say about why you actually chose it?
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 06healthcare issueexample
vaping among teenagers has been in the news a lot lately. what do you make of it, and what would a fair response from the health system look like?
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 07personal insightexample
describe a time you were wrong about something that mattered to you. what actually changed your mind, and what did you keep from it?
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 08personal experienceexample
tell us about a time you had to keep going when you badly wanted to stop. what got you through it, and what did it cost you? (nothing you would find upsetting to discuss.)
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 09Hauora Māoriexample
Māori are more likely to live far from specialist services and to face cost and transport barriers to reaching them. why might that be, and what would a health system that took it seriously do differently?
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
- station 10career choiceexample
this is a career that will sometimes ask more of you than you have to give. how will you look after yourself in it? be specific, not aspirational.
30s to read, 3 minutes to answer
there are 528 stations in the practice bank itself, across all seven domains, and you record your answer to each one on camera against the real clock.
how to actually answer one
notice what the ten have in common. none has a right answer you could look up, and every one asks you to weigh something, so an answer that picks a side in the first ten seconds and defends it for the rest is usually a worse answer than one that names the tension first.
three minutes is longer than it feels in the abstract and shorter than it feels on camera. the pacing arithmetic and a structure that fits it is its own page, because getting to the end of your point before the clock runs out is a separate skill from having the point.
what you are actually scored on
the domain labels above are the kind of question, not the mark scheme. Auckland scores attributes, three of them per station, and does not tell you which three. the seven domains and eight attributes explains what that means for how you answer.
if you want the rest of the picture, what an MMI costs to prepare for, and what is free is the honest version, and it points at the free options first.
reading a station is not practising one
a webcam, thirty seconds, three minutes, one take, and a station you have not seen before. free to start, no card.
read the official pages
everything on this page came from these. they are free, they are the only ones that count, and they change.
cutline is an independent study tool. we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the University of Auckland, Kira Talent, or Acuity Insights. formats and requirements change, so always confirm the details against the official pages linked above before you rely on them.