How to explain your final-year project in a technical…

Use the 60-second pitch
Don't open with the tech stack. Explain who had the problem, what you built, which tech you used and why, and what changed. Practise aloud with a timer, stop at 60 seconds and let the interviewer ask questions.
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1. Problem: who had it?
2. My role: what I built
3. Tech: and why
4. Result: what changed
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Say "I built", not "we did"
In team projects, interviewers want to know your part. Name the module you owned. If you used a tutorial, open-source code or someone else's model, say so. Honesty holds up under follow-up questions.
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"We were 4. I owned the login and payment APIs in Spring Boot and the MySQL schema."
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Prepare the 5 follow-up questions
These questions come up again and again after the pitch. Write an answer for each before the interview. If you don't know, say how you would find out rather than staying silent.
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Why this tech, not X?
Hardest bug you fixed?
How does data flow?
What if 10x users came?
What would you change now?
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Draw the architecture in 4 boxes
Practise sketching your system in 30 seconds and walking through one request from start to finish. Keep the same diagram in your GitHub README so you can share your screen in online rounds.
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Client -> API -> Database
              -> External service
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Make the resume line match the story
Rewrite the project bullet as action + tech + real result, using only true numbers (for example, "tested with 40 classmates"). Then run your resume through Hirastra's free ATS resume checker (no sign-up) to see whether the project section is read correctly.
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Use the 60-second pitch

Say "I built", not "we did"

Prepare the 5 follow-up questions

Draw the architecture in 4 boxes

Make the resume line match the story