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Describe a time you were very busy.
You should say:
when it was
why you were so busy
what you had to do
and explain how you felt about being that busy.
One particularly busy time in my life was about six months ago. I had a major work deadline that coincided with my final exams at university. It was a two-week period in December when everything seemed to pile up at once, and I felt like I barely had time to sleep.
At work, I was part of a small team developing an urgent feature for a client’s web application. We had to code, test and deploy within a matter of weeks. On top of that, I was in my final semester of a computer science degree, and I had two major project submissions and three final exams looming.
To manage everything, I created a detailed daily schedule and stuck to it religiously. I would attend lectures in the morning, work remotely as a developer during the afternoon and then study late into the night. I even used breaks in my workday to revise for my exams or debug our project’s code. It was honestly exhausting!
Although it was challenging—both mentally and physically—I learned a lot about time management and staying focused under pressure. When the client project went live without any issues and I passed all my exams with high marks, I felt incredibly proud!
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