I had a super wonderful awesome time with kumpulan 2. It was seriously the best scholarship interview i've attended (hah, like i've attended that much of an interview... anyways, moving on).
The JPA-MARA scholarship interview is different and unique, fun and exciting in the same time,
1) The interview is held in a group, thus you'll feel less nervous
2) It's like doing some kind of a school presentation for English/Bahasa class
3) TEAMMATES WERE SUPER DUPER FUN&SPORTING.
There were 2 sessions in total, 1 for BM and 1 for BI
Thus, on 26/3/15, I've went to INTEC Shah Alam for the iv.
1st Session
Roughly, there will be 14 people in a group and the group is further subdivided into 2 more groups, consisting 7 people per group. (but on the day 2 people were absent for some unavoided reason leaving only 12 people behind.)
1) Ice breaking session (5 minutes)
we played the numbers game. nothing much to say, it was a quick activity to kinda make the candidates "wake up" because our iv session was in the afternoon (biasa la petang mengantuk kot)
2) Case-interpreting session (15 minutes)
we were given 2 papers with topics. 2 topics in total, 1 for each group.
tajuk:
"Pertanian adalah Perniagaan"
anda sebagai pemimpin pada tahun 2040 haruslah _________
->teknologi yg perlu diketengahkan
->cara untuk meningkatkan/menggalakkan industri tempatan
ugh it was one of the hardest topic so far and i was LACK OF INFORMATION.
there's this one guy in my team (under fast-track in UPM,pertanian, kencang kot, glad he was there and he knows a lot about pertanian kinda stuff! you're my life saver!!!)
the panel will keep an eye on you so BE ACTIVE and TALK, ALWAYS KEEP THAT SMILE ON YA.
3) Mahjong Paper (15 minutes)
Write out every key points on the paper
4) Presentation (30 minutes)
Every person is given the chance to talk. Don't worry and SHINE :) keep on asking questions for that extra merit.
(oh masa tu the 1st group, the panel tanya dasar kerajaan terhadap insdutri pertanian. SERIOUS, TAK TAHU APA. OUR BAD.)
done yay! proceed on the second session, BI Session
2nd Session
1) Case-interpreting session (15 minutes)
topic: STILL, ON AGRICULTURE.
->food safety, challenges and ways to overcome
->technology that gov. should implement
2) Mahjong Paper (15 minutes)
Write out every key points on the paper
3) Presentation (30 minutes)
Still, the same flow as the BM Session, just keep on talking with a good body language and an EXCELLENT ENGLISH.NO ROJAK PLEASE. i know rojak is nice but you have to avoid it.
you don't have to have any accent, just speak FLUENTLY.
DONE AND YASSSSSS IT'S TIME TO GO HOME!!
made new friends!! (best part of it)
-Arissa Munira
-Irfan Khalil
-Iman Aisha
-Fara Shuhada
-Daniel Ibrahim (BUDAK FAST TRACK UPM, KENCANGSSS)
-and etc. etc.
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| MEET AISYAH ASBAR. BUDAK KENCANG BASIS 9A+ :D |
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| Iman kena dare dengan Irfan naik kerusi ambik selfie :p |
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| Our last group photo before going back home :))) |
Sealed with kisses,
Nadia. xx
