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Here are examples of some of the sponsorship interview questions asked for A levels sponsorship at Sunway.
"Tell me about your family and yourself
Tell me about your extra co-curricular activities and leadership positions
Tell me about something that is happening in Malaysia
Tell me about something that is happening outside of Malaysia right now. Please give specifics.
What will you change if you were the Prime Minister of Malaysia and why"
Tell me about your extra co-curricular activities and leadership positions
Tell me about something that is happening in Malaysia
Tell me about something that is happening outside of Malaysia right now. Please give specifics.
What will you change if you were the Prime Minister of Malaysia and why"
There were two interviewers to each candidate. Besides A levels, interviews were also being held for other pre-u courses like MUFY, AUSMAT etc.
When your child is in Form 5, you have to start exploring their tertiary education pathways. You explore everything and apply for some (scholarships) so that your window of opportunity is wider. Nowadays it is quite competitive among the private colleges so they start offering scholarships not only on trial exam results but also on mid term exam results. Today's crowd for the scholarship interview was about 400 approved out of over 1000 which applied. The interview is to try to get a higher quantum.
The Sunway scholarship has no bond and can be transferred to other pre-u courses if you change your mind about A levels. If you are not particular about studying locally, try to encourage your child to have the best results possible so they can apply for matriculation as well and apply for that too.
If your child is in Form 3, it is time to expose them to different jobs and careers to find their interest. By Form 4, it is time to start attending higher education fairs. It is not too early to start visiting a few open days to have a better idea of what is available and what you can afford etc.
With hindsight, we realize that planning for tertiary education should be long term and worked backwards. Look ahead at what you think might be a good career path for your children and then work backwards by guiding them even from primary school. Your school choices will depend on your tertiary education level choices too.
In any case, children should be taught to work hard so that they will be able to go for academically heavy courses should they choose to. They should be given opportunities to lead, to interact socially with peers, to work in teams, to think out of the box so that the doors open to them will be wider with more opportunities.
Many children, even at secondary school level do not know what they really want so it is up to parents to guide them and give them the support they need for the next most important journey in their academic lives before starting work.
Many children, even at secondary school level do not know what they really want so it is up to parents to guide them and give them the support they need for the next most important journey in their academic lives before starting work.
Hope this sharing is useful to some of you with children in secondary school.
