Interview UM

Alhamdulillah, UPU pilihan ketiga aku dapat shortlisted untuk temuduga. Keputusan nama yang di shortlisted untuk interview Universiti Malaya diumumkan pada 16 April. Pihak admin cakap, interview dekat Regency Hotel Alor Setar ni diadakan selama 3 hari. Setiap hari ada 200 orang calon dan dibahagikan kepada 2 sesi iaitu sesi pagi dan petang. Dapat bayangkan tak betapa penatnya assessors nak interview kita?

Pengalaman Interview JPA 4 Negara 2014

Interview JPA Jepun, Perancis, Korea dan German dibuat kat UiTM Arau bagi zon utara pada 14 April 2014. Disebabkan dekat dengan rumah, so aku pergi saja. Sesi aku pada pukul 2.00 petang, tapi kena pergi 30 minit sebelum. Aku pergi 1 jam sebelum! Sampai-sampai ada lah beberapa orang chinese students, so kami semua daftar dulu. Aku dah ada pengalaman interview Petronas sebelum ni, so tak kekok sangat. Pendaftaran aku tak sampai 5 minit pun. Bagi fail dan tandatangan ja.

Lepas dah siap daftar, aku pergi solat kat surau dulu then turun bawah balik. Aku sampai saja kat tempat pendaftaran tu, terjumpa kawan lah pulak! Si kembar dari Sains Syed Putra dan kawan-kawan dia. Aku tak tau nama, tiba-tiba dia panggil nama aku suruh aku cakap kat officer tu kata dia nak pi solat. Aku terpinga-pinga la jugak tapi...hahaha. Biaqla.

Ok, disebabkan ada 14 orang saja, jadi kami dibahagikan kepada 3 group. Group pertama 5 orang, group kedua 5 orang, group ketiga 4 orang. Aku nombor 15 jadi aku masuk group ketiga. Kami dibawa ke bilik berasingan untuk di interview. Setiap sesi, bilik lain-lain.

Sesi 1 : Kami diberi tajuk 'IPTA lebih baik dari IPTS' untuk dibahaskan. Ada dua group. Group aku sebagai kerajaan. Dahla aku tak ada apa-apa pengalaman berbahas! Cuak kottt. Tapi aku buat selamba saja. Redah saja la. Takkan nak lari kot kan. Bila dah habis bentangkan, assessors tu tanya lagi soalan. Ada lah dalam 3 round. Round last tu pun berhenti sebab bila dia tanya soalan, kami tak ada huraian dah. Semua isi dah habis dihuraikan, baru la berhenti sebab kami speechless bila assessors tu tanya soalan lagi.

Sesi 2: Kami diberi tajuk 'Multiracial' and here, we were required to speak fully english. Fuhh berdebar lagi tapi aci redah saja lah kan. Kami dibahagikan kepada 2 group lagi so kiranya aku dengan partner aku, lagi satu group pun 2 orang juga. 12 minit, kami kena bincang isi. Lepastu, duduk sebaris depan assessors dan they will ask you to tell your keypoints. Lepas semua dah bagi keypoints masing-masing, assessors tu tanya lah pendapat kami. Cakap saja lah. Aku memang hope session ni cepat habis sebab aku orang last. Jadi, segala isi yang aku nak cakap, orang sebelum-sebelum aku akan cakap dulu. Nanti aku punya otak ligat lah berfikir, "apa aku nak cakap ni, semua dia dah kebas".

Sesi 3: Kami dibahagikan ikut partner lagi and seorang wakil kena pergi dapatkan soalan dari fasi. Bawa pen dan kertas untuk catatkan isi penting soalan. Jangan risau, kertas dah disediakan oleh pihak assessors. Lepas tu, kami kena bincangkan jawapan tapi kena speak fully malay pulak. Kalau ada cakap selain malay, kena penalti. Lepas dah dapat jawapan, wakil pergi bentangkan dekat assessors. Aku rasa, kat sini nak tengok cara kita berfikir, kerjasama dan keyakinan diri kita nak bentangkan. Aku ada bentangkan sekali. Aku rasa seronok sebab macam kita dapat keluarkan idea...Btw, jangan ingat senang sangat! Kita kan dah biasa cakap manglish ni. Susah lah juga nak control percakapan. Aku ada lah tersasul dua perkataan english. Contohnya macam; so, pattern, try. Hahahhaha. 

1. Lukis kotak, letak nombor berapa kat kotak kosong yang diberikan.

2. Ada enam nombor 1 dan operasi (+), macam mana nak gunakan dua benda ni, untuk dapatkan no 123.

3. Ali jawab kuiz yang mengandungi 40 soalan. Satu soalan betul 10 markah. Satu soalan salah tolak 5 markah. Tak jawab, 0 markah. Jumlah markah Ali 270. Kira berapa soalan yang Ali jawab salah?

Tu la soalan yang aku ingat. Soalan akhir tu, dua-dua group aku jawab betul tapi kami ikut logik. Assessors tu cakap dia nak dalam bentuk algebra. Ok, dah lama cuti. Lupa macam mana :P. Balik rumah, aku check dengan kawan dan dapat macam ni   a(10)+b(-5)=270.Ada lagi rasanya tapi...ok fikir-fikirkanlah ya!

Lupa nak cakap, setiap bilik tu ada 2 orang assessors. Lagi satu, kalau assessors buat muka macam kebosanan atau malas nak dengar apa kita cakap, ignore saja. Saja je dia tu nak psycho kita bagi tension sikit. And, bentangkan saja isi kita dengan penuh semangat ok? Dah....jadi...5 petang, tamat lah sesi interview JPA kami! Ok, dapat lagi satu pengalaman...

Petronas Youngstars Day 2014

Weeeee~
I went for Petronas Youngstars Day 2014 to gain some interview experience on 12th April 2014 at Taylor Lakeside Campus, Subang Jaya. Upon reaching the  venue at 8.15 a.m, my father and I  went straight into the campus. The Petronas officer greet us and somehow, during the greetings, I met a new friend, Haurah. I was surprised as she came alone as her parents only dropped her off at the campus. Yeah! And we become friends.

Haha, so awkward la nak cerita in English. Rojak jom. Ok, beratur punya la panjang sampai I can't see where actually the registration counter is.So, tengah2 beratur tu, teringat yang IC ada kat dalam purse in the other bag yang ayah pegang. I was quite cemas lah but trying to act cool, I called ayah about a few times but he did not answer. Haish! Lagilah bertambah cuak. Suddenly, Anisa, my schoolmate, keluar from her line and jalan ke belakang. Dia cakap dia nak ambil barang and I was like woaaah ada geng. Jom jom.

Kami jalan la sampai jumpa this one officer and we asked her where parents were gathered. He lead us the way and tadaaa jumpa. Malu kena jalan depan semua orang masa nak pergi kat ayah yang duduk hujung sekali. Pegang erat2 phone kat tangan, bajet2 cool saja. Jalan ignore the surrounding.

Ok, dah siap ambil IC. I looked for Nisa but tak jumpa so, jalan lah sorang2 pergi registration counter balik. Dah selamat register semua and ambil goody bag and colour  tag, we were asked to enter the lecture hall to have some briefing. I was in the Yellow group btw.Oh and rupa-rupanya bukan Nisa yang tinggalkan aku tapi aku yang tinggalkan Nisa. Sorry!!! Ok, and dalam lecture hall tu, we were informed that RED AND BLUE will be going for the interview first while YELLOW and GREEN will have the test first. Rasa lega sangat.

Ok, ada dua session for test. First is science and math test which we were required to answer 30 questions in 1 hour. It consists of Physics, Chemistry and Add Math. The syllabus was the same with SPM paper but much easier since all of the questions is multiple choice questions. Haha much easier la sangat kan. Terkial-kial sebab no formula provided and what do you expect, cuti lama kottt. Otak karat dah. Belum polish. Lupa habis. At the end of the session, ada this one guy tanya "you ingat tak mcm mana nak buat soalan ni? I've forgotten".  I showed him my working and ok, yang tu I ingat. Soalan lain, I lupa juga!

Rehat for 10 minit to have some refreshments and masuk lecture hall balik untuk ada critical reasoning test. Ada 40 questions and you have to answer in 30 minutes. Ada a lot of patterns and you have to choose the next possible one. Surprisingly, I enjoyed this test! So, finally the test sessions ended at 12 pm and we could rest before sambung dengan the evening session aka the interview session. Lunch was provided btw.
Lepas lunch, pergi surau and jumpa ramai lagi kawan kat dalam tu. Ada student from TKC,and so on la. Yang ingat, jumpa Raudhah Illani from Terengganu.

Group green kena kumpul pukul 1.45 pm while the yellow one at 2.00 pm. So, we enjoyed the extra time. Tunggu lama dalam lecture hall tu sebab the green group punya interview session have not ended yet so the yellow session started at 3.15 pm. Masa yang lama tu, kami sembang la apa lagi. I met Mimi from BRAINS.We spoke in BM but suddenly we changed our languange sebab nak practise interview.

30 minutes was provided for us to brainstorm and after that we had to go for the interview. Dapat tajuk pasal sports. Dia dah bagi points, kita tinggal eloborate and tambah points(kalau nak) saja. Alahaii, dah la aku ni jarang sikit sports nih....Btw, I was in the 6th group from yellow group but my group was the first one to go. Fuh fuh. Takut!

Ada individual interview and group interview. Mula-mula, setiap orang akan masuk and selepas semua orang dalam group 6 tu dah habis interview, satu group dipanggil semula for the group interview. Masa individual interview, just perkenalkan diri  and bagitahu isi kita. 10 minutes was provided tapi aku rasa aku tak sampai 10 minutes pun. Lepas tu, masa group interview, masa provided was 40 minutes. Rasa macam lama kan? Sebenarnya tak pun. Maybe dalam kertas arahan tulis lain tapi sebenarnya 20 minit saja masa yang diberikan. Setiap orang kena utarakan pendapat masing-masing and at the end, kena capai satu conclusion. Yang lawaknya, one of my groupmate, she responsed to every isi yang orang utarakan and she said "i like your idea". And, one of the guy said "you, everything you liked! :-p ". Satu bilik tu pecah dengan our laughter termasuk assessors tu sekali. Ok, assessors tu ada 2 orang.

Overall, the interview sessions went well even though we had not get the chance to get to the conclusion. Rasa macam sesi chit-chatting saja. The assessors just tengok and menyampuk your perbincangan sikit-sikit saja.

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Habis saja interview, kami semua bergambar and share instagram. Macam dah lama kenal. The one yang jaga students Youngstars kat situ, dengan tone buat lawak dia tu,  dia suruh kami pergi tingkat 11 untuk ambil dinner. We were liked, "ohhh okay" without paying much attention sebab masing-masing tengah sibuk dengan phone. Naik lif sama-sama pergi the max level and tengok-tengok kami kena kelentong! Haish. Ada 9 tingkat saja. Level 11 tu apa? Rooftop? Hahahahah. Tu la main phone sambil jalan lagi. Masa nak turun pun, sesat sebab main naik saja lif tu and ikut the level yang siapa entah ada tekan. Tengok-tengok, sampai parking lot pulak. Haiyaaa rasa macam dah teleported ke the other end of the building pulak -,-'

Akhirnya, sampai juga ke tempat yang dituju setelah tersesat level for 2 kali.

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Penat sangat nak tunggu teksi sebab semua dah di 'booked' orang. Rupa-rupanya they use the 'MYTEKSI' application yang ada kat google playstore tu. Masa tengah chit-chatting dengan orang pun, boleh pula tiba-tiba macam rasa diri melayang and ke belakang. Nasib baik tak jatuh terduduk. Ni kot rasa nak pitam. Haiya lembik betul. Baru makan sikit, dah nak pitam. Maybe sebab dah jarang buat aktiviti for  the whole day macam ni kot. Tu yang penat semacam.

Biasiswa Nasional 2014

I was urged by my parents to blog about my experiences. Since these past time, my parents always reads blogs about other previous SPM leavers. Well, I was a 2013's SPM leavers and I have not gain any experience regarding interviews yet.

I managed to get Biasiswa Nasional 2014 and the ceremony was held at INTAN Bukit Kiara last Monday which was on 31st March 2014.

Since I don't have any experience yet about the interview, I would like to share about the Biasiwa Nasional. As usual, after the SPM's result was announced, all students including me would get superb busy to apply for the scholarships. I have already applied for MARA (my first target), PETRONAS, YTN, MMC, UEM, Security Commision,and Bank Negara. During my chat with my schoolmates, she told me that she had applied for Bursary and I was like "what? whats that?". She said it was KPM's scholarship. So, I surfed the KPM's website and key in my IC number and password. I was very dissapointed as my name was not on the list. I rechecked for almost 5 times and I asked my fellow friends. It was such a relieve because not just me who did not listed.

Fafa, Ain, and Sarah were not listed to. I told my friend who informed me about the Bursary and she said "maybe you will get Biasiswa Nasional". I was really shocked and started to hope for it. Actually, I have never dreamt to get Biasiswa Nasional. When I got 9A+ for SPM, I also did not quite believe it to the point that I scanned my slip for like 100 times (ok, this is exaggerating :P)

For about a week, Fafa and I got really curious about our fate. My friend from KISAS was very sure that I would get Biasiswa Nasional. Finally, Fafa told me that she received a call from JPA regarding the Biasiswa Nasional. I waited for my call and my phone was by my side all the time.

ALHAMDULILLAH...At last! The officer from JPA called me and she asked about a few of my personal details including email. So, here I am, at INTAN Bukit Kiara.

I was smiling widely. Hahaha

STF, my school

Penerima 

Sarah, Ain, Me and Fafa

We were allowed to choose either KYUEM, Taylor College or Kolej Damansara Utama. The deadline for our response is on 8th April which is today! A week after the ceremony.

To avoid the hassle,on the very same day of receiving the offer letter, I have already replied informing my acceptance and now, I am waiting to be enrolled to KYUEM. InsyaAllah.

Actually, I wanted to be in Kolej Mara Banting as an IB student and I had surveyed KMB for a quite some time.However,  Allah has a better plan for me. I fell in love with KYUEM since my family and I visited the college on our way home from INTAN. I can't wait to start studying again for my a-level ! :) Pray for me!