Review Your Qualifications
Most interviewers start the session by asking you to tell them about yourself. This is where you can discuss your accomplishments, interests, and strengths. Use your answer to highlight things that distinguish you as a candidate. To prepare, think about your background and past achievements. You should also be able to articulate your plans for the future and explain how both the program and the university will help you to meet those goals. Tailor your answers so they fit with the offerings of that particular programme.
Before the interview, you should also look over your application. Try to imagine things you might be asked to explain, such as your research, a related internship, or a poor grade. Answer these questions thoroughly and honestly.

Research Current Issues in Your Field
For the weeks and months leading up to your interview, you should follow the major issues and current events in your discipline. Read the newspaper regularly. You should also review leading journals in your field. Be prepared to discuss these current issues in your interview. Your stance on an issue is not important. You simply need to show you can debate it intelligently and accurately.
KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUND
The interview board expects you to know few things about the PTDF.
To prepare for this, visit the ptdf website (http://ptdf.gov.ng/about-ptdf/) and read up all the information there.
Note the mission and vision of the PTDF.

PTDF BASED Questions
Other questions asked in this area are:
1. Who is the Executive Secretary of the PTDF?
2. What year was the PTDF formed?
3. What was it formally called and when did it change its name to PTDF?
4. How does the Fund derive its revenue to carry out projects?
5. The first oil and gas polytechnic built by the fund is located in?
2. Why do you think light crude is in high demand?
3. Name 5 international organizations that Nigeria belongs to?
4. When did the cold war end?

Why did you choose this school for your postgraduate studies?
PURPOSE OF QUESTION: Whatever else your panel asks, you can be pretty sure a question about your choice of university and department will crop up at some point in a PhD interview...
ANSWER TIPS: In answering this question, you are expected to have done your background research about the school and the lecturers in it. Their reputations, records and achievements should form the basis of your choice...
SAMPLE ANSWER (For Ph.D Applicants): I’ve looked at lots of opportunities in this area. I feel that this project is the best of its kind, combining a unique research angle with a training programme that will meet my professional needs.
SAMPLE ANSWER (For M.Sc Applicants): “I have always dreamt to be a project manager and everything about the procurement interests me a lot. In search of a school that can help me in this quest...