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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 207791" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi [USER=27653]@Lawlife5[/USER] this is a great question and I do empathize with your struggle. My answer is that I did not did not memorize all of my answers and I do not think you should aim to either. In truth, I did not exactly memorize any given answer. I initially tried to for the big three motivational questions (why commercial law, why firm, why me) but then I realized that (i) I would sound really robotic when saying them; and (ii) I would often end up forgetting bits of the exact wording, which would then detract my entire performance. As such, I gave up word-for-word memorization and settled for memorizing a basic structure and the ideas and examples I wanted to express. This took significantly less time and as I practiced I also found out that on-the-spot articulation sounded a lot better. I would recommend you take the same approach for a selection of questions you consider very likely to come up (which I don't think should be more than 10-15 in total).Besides these, I do not think you should aim to memorize answers at all. You are unlikely to be able to prepare structured memorized answers for the hundreds of possible variations and iterations of questions you may encounter in an interview. Moreover, if you did so the mindset you would enter the interview room with would be problematic, as you would be looking to interpret the interviewer's questions in a way that fits you pre-prepared scripts. Thus, you would be running a higher risk of hearing what you want to hear and actually not answering the real questions at all. I still think you should prepare for them by (a) writing a long list of potential questions down; then (b) writing down short bullet pointed ideas describing how you would respond; and (c) practicing articulating as many of them as possible. This will help you achieve the most important thing, which is to develop your interview skillset. Part of this skillset includes deep knowledge of one's experiences and achievements, and ability to describe them in a flexible manner to pick out particular aspects and draw out the desired themes and inferences in the context, and an ability to formulate thoughts on the spot in an articulate manner. By preparing in this way, you will have a higher chance of being able to deal well with any given interview question, whether you have thought of it before or not.</blockquote>

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