2023 MSA Examination:Structured interview, 1 set of questions per day, each set of 4 questions. There will be a total of 20 minutes to answer the questions, and there will be a reminder when there are 5 minutes left. There are question books, pens, and paper in the venue.
Since 2013, with the exception of the Yangtze River Maritime Safety Bureau, local maritime bureaus and grassroots marine departments have adopted the method of departmental independent proposition for interviews. After 2020, the examination of professional background knowledge has been reduced in the maritime interview, but the question type has become very flexible, and for four consecutive years, short material questions, chart questions, etc. have been examined, and the question book is read first, and then the examiner will read the questions, which has increased the amount of reading, requiring candidates to improve their ability to grasp the key points, and at the same time require more care and patience.
A clear trend can be seen that before 2019, the questions involved comprehensive analysis, planning and organization of emergency response, and scenario simulation. In recent years, maritime topics have tended to test candidates' practical work ability. Among the interview questions, it is common to organize emergency response and scenario simulation by plan. What needs to be watched out for is the new question types that have appeared in the past two years, such as n choose 1, classification, reading materials, life formulas and other new trends. In 2019, there were more argument rebuttal questions, and in recent years there have been fewer of them, but we still have to be careful.