21 April 2011

Educamp Trick.

cube tgok ni..(dpd khai utk korang) mne tau mmbntu,,,^_^Salam. First of all congrats on getting the interview for Petronas. :D You guys are lucky enough to get this golden ticket on entering the first step towards becoming a scholar under this top nation oil company. :)

So here's the deal, EDUCAMP IS THE STAGE WHERE YOU'LL BE ASSESSED ON ALL ACCOUNTS.

As did the past years, the usual EDUCAMP will start with nearly four hundreds students per batch; with a melange of LOCAL and OVS applicants. It's gonna be huge, 400 applicants per camp is indeed too much for the interviewers to handle. But that's the trick anyway. Since there are so many of you, they can easily get rid of those who, in their opinion, would be very unlikely to reserve a seat as their scholar. So throughout the 2days1night, PLEASE show the best ATTITUDE that you can give.

Next for the topic is on the TEST. EDUCAMP is quite lousy for me since that it has a lot of test to offer. You'll be tested on MATHS, IQ, and ENGLISH as for the critical parts. MATHS is gonna be very OKAY, it's simple I guess. But on the other hand, IQ and ENGLISH are deleterious. For IQ you gotta put all your common sense and logics together in one place. Sometimes the way the questions twist is unpredictably goes off beyond your line of thinking; you've just got to be quick! The least that you can do is be LOGIC and RATIONAL. That's the clue. And as for ENGLISH, it really depends on your proficiency level, and how fast you think. ENGLISH section is not that hard, but there are so many questions that if treated without wise, would really overdrive you.

Lastly, the INTERVIEW. Okay I guess after all this is where they choose to DECLINE you or ACCEPT you on the prior note. The IV is quite different from the other IV in fact; you are given a CASE STUDY about a real world problem and a ROLE per person and how would you solve the problems with YOUR OWN THOUGHTS as the person holding the title. Get me? Here's the example for IV last year.

"THE INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES HAS FAILED TO REDUCE THE GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSION WITH REGARDS THAT THE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSION HAS INCREASED WITH ALL THE INDUSTRIAL SECTORS WORKING ON THE POLLUTION ALL THE WAY UP; AND THEY NEVER SEEM TO BACK DOWN.

AS THE HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT, DISCUSS WHAT YOU COULD DO TO THWART THIS NIGHTMARE FROM BEING REIMAGINED."

So from the scope given, you HAVE to think of the solutions in the perspective of A PRIME MINISTER, or be it the GOVERNMENT, to solve the problem. HARD? The IV is gonna be somewhat tougher than this.

So while you are given the case study, you will be assigned in a group of five, all with the same case study but different point of view. ou'll be given 15 minutes to set up your case and after that will be meeting the interviewers in the respective room. It's gonna be a fierce debate among you and them so be prepared mentally. Well, that happened to me last year cos I got some supermean interviewers that refuse to give in. Haha. After that, you'll be in the waiting room again wait for the other four to finish theirs. Later when all five have finished, you'll meet the interviewers again, but this time around you'll be debating amongst you the applicants and fight to get whose point stands out the most. So that's the trick; LEAD the conversation and be PROFESSIONAL, wait for others to finish talking and try to SUPPORT them but in the same time, DISTINGUISH your point and show them how would yours outshine the rest.

That's basically the tips and overview about EDUCAMP. All in all, it's gonna be tiring two days but the fun awaits! Meet new people, mingle around and have some good knowledge sharing with each other!

All the best peeps! ;) Anything you can just ask me. I'll be more than glad to help. Thanks and please share with others that would need this too :)

Rabbi yassir wa la' tu'assir, insyaAllah. Salam...

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