Since i have nothing to do now and i’m damn worried, i decided to talk about my interview yesterday. But first of all let me say why i’m just so super super worried now! To qualify for the JPA scholarship for medicine, the candidates would have to first fill in the application form online, attend the Program Pendedahan Kerjaya Seorang Doktor, attend the interview and complete an online test and prepare a whole lot of certified documents. So, i’ve done most of it but my birth cert, ic and my parent’s birth cert was not certified and there was no original copy for their birth cert. My parents thought that I didnt need those certified. So the interview letter said that if i dont hv those stuff my application will terjejas. Okay la… Nothing i can do about that. BUT today, i wanted to do the online test and there’s the time limit, i hr 15min and we have to use internet explorer. I wonder why in the world did i ignore that syarat and used mozilla firefox instead!!! So when i clicked on my first answer the time immediately stopped and the thing said "kamu telah melebihi masa yang ditetapkan" and it wasn’t even 5 sec yet. My gosh, i almost fainted so i immediately called JPA and told them what happened. The guy asked me a few questions and found out i didnt use internet explorer and he said thats the cause. He ask me to use internet explorer and i asked if it will be okay ady? He said they will have to reset the system thingy and asked for my IC number. He say try again in 30 minutes… Thanked him but i’m still soooo worried la, coz there’s no internet explorer here, or at least i cannot find one in this comp so i will have to wait until my uncle comes home which would probably be ariund 7pm then after dinner and all around 9pm… HAIH…. I’m just scared they decide not to reset for me or forgot to do it then i just miss the CHANCE to get almost half a million dollars worth of education!! Needless to say, i’ll receive proper scolding from every single family member which will leave me feeling completely ground low and stupid. Sometimes i wonder why i do certain things… haih…
Anyways, interview yesterday, went with a taxi, no jam, road was very clear, taxi driver couldn’t be nicer. I arrived about 15min before time. So many ppl were there and hence, reminded me of the great competition i was going to face. I went straight to where a group of candidates were standing and found out that we were divided into groups and we will be interviewed by different panels. So mine was Room 15, Panel4. There were about 18 names on that list of paper so when it was time for the interview, they split us into another 2 groups, my group was 2nd so we waited for the 1st group to finish before we were allowed into the room. The 1st group took such a long time, other people were already released but they were still not out. So we waited until around 10 smth when our interview was scheduled for 8am. There’s another group at 10am. So when i stepped in… the room was quite small with 9 chairs arranged in a semi circle. BUt we only occupied 8 chairs. One man one woman interviewer. We had to give them our original copy or certs before we sat then they started writting stuff and told us to calm down and ‘tenangkan fikiran’.
Air-cond was so cold i started to shake slightly not of fear but coz it was so cold. So they asked us to introduce ourselves, tell them about our family, koku activities our ambition and which country we want to study our course. I was number 3 so we followed the sequence. We had to speak in BM which i was quite worried about considering my lack of practice but thank God i made it. They interrupted me when i said i hope to study in Ireland but i dont mind any other country. The lady asked if you were to get India will you accept? I said "sudah tentu, kerana India menghasilkan doktor-doktor yang baik and mereka lebih menekankan praktikal ketika belajar di sana." Then she said not all doctors from India are good coz they can buy certs there and i was like ‘ooohhh’ and she was like are you aware of this? I said ‘yea, i’ve heard of it." Then the guys asked me coz he was looking through my certs and found the Most Promising Advocate award for mooting and he said "I see here you joined mooting, arent you interested in becoming a lawyer?" lol… Then i said i’m much more interested in medicine. After everyone had their turn, the lady gave us the question for our group discussion: If you were given a chance to change something from your schooling days, what would it be any why? Suddenly i felt like i was in those beauty pageant thing when they had to answer this sort of question. Nevertheless, i was super gratetful coz one, it was an easy question, two this session was in english. She asked who wanted to start first and my head was blank at that moment so i didnt go first. I was probably the 2nd last one to answer. Many said they wished that they were more active in sports (most of us are chess player…hahaha but we had an international bowler and a karate black belter in our midst). 3 actually said they wished they changed school coz the condition there was unsatisfactory, then i said that "on the contrary to my 3 friends here, i wished i didnt change school (i really didnt know what else to say… hence this reason seems to be the best coz there’s a lot of points to elaborate) coz i had to adapt to a new surrounding, get used to the teacher’s teaching methods, make new friends while at the same time try to balance my studying. I told them it was a difficult thing to do but thankfully I could cope and just for laughs i added that I would have chosen to go to a co-ed school instead of a convent school at which the interviewers both looked at me and the whole room laughed. I said that co-ed school would give you the exposure you would need around guys blah blah…
From the question i really didnt know what they were looking for in the answers i also dont know if my answer was good enough or outstanding enough. This question was supposed to be a group discussion but the ppl sort of ended up talking to the interviewers only which weren’t really looking at us, they weren’t interacting. No one talked to each other and we went by turns… I was like what? is this right? so when it was my turn, the best thing i could do to make it look like a discussion was to look at every group member and try talk to them and the interviewers, try to make it seem like a conversation. But there was no reply from anyone so its A ONE WAY CONVERSATION lol…
After that question, the lady said okay this is the end of your interview, me and another friend, Ainaa were sort of blur and "huh? that’s it?" but we just took back our files said thank you to them and went home.
Let me share what other groups got as their group discussion topic.
1. What qualities do you think a leader should have?
2. Handphones, A necessity or luxury?
3. 12th general election. was it democratic or people’s displeasure. (See my comment, not very sure)
4. How are you going to promote malaysian culture abroad?
5. Heard some ppl say not sure true or not: Talk about dengue, TB…etc. Do you think girls are smarter than boys?
So overall, compared to these questions i’m so thankful mine was fine and easy and the interviewers weren’t challenging our answers. Well they did la a bit but i didnt kena. They asked why you want to study abroad? then some said things like i want to experience the various cultures there, then they ask Malaysia also got various cultures what why must go overseas? And when they ask what country would you like to go to, some answered UK, then they ask why not India? I read one girl’s blog who got really scary interviewers who wanted to get you out of your comfort zone and so they challenge every answer you give. I was sort of expecting that also but we got good people…haha
Well, i’m off to look for nice movies to watch and i really do hope that they ady reset the online test thing for me la… haih…
