Alhamdulillah for this golden opportunity. Before attending mara interview, I have attended Yayasan Tenaga Nasional (YTN)- overseas scholarship for accounting as well but I didnt put high hope on that. YTN interview was conducted individually. It was quite santai questions but they were actually trying to psycho me I guess. I couldnt tell the exact format for ytn iv because it depends on the interviewers or the panelists. In my case, they didnt ask me about TNB , otherwise they asked me based on what I have answered during the personality test that has been conducted before entering the interview session.
Okay let me share a little experience for MARA Interview. First of all, the candidates should answer online psychometrics test. Something bad has happened to me while answering the test. We needed to answer 100 questions in 1 hour. The questions were mixed in languages. Malay and english. But mostly the questions were in english. Skop soalan seperti berikut,
1- kenegaraan
2- IQ test
3- personality test
4- a little bit about mara
5- morality
Personality questions were easy but try to be consistent with your answers. That was my brother's advice. Jawablah macam diri kita suci gila kan. Haha I used to recall all form 5 history chapters. Semangat kan? Huhu IQ test tu ada je saya hentam. Alhamdulillah I managed to answer all the questions given but I didnt click the submit button. I thought that I still got enough time to go through all the questions again but hehe suddenly , 'time's out'.
On that time, I was like gelap sudah masa depanku. Masih ada harapan ke nak pergi perancis ?!!
Awh baby dont cry.
I couldnt sleep peacefully on that night. Plus my friend received different slip after clicking the submit button. Dahla saya dapat slip program pinjaman mara lepasan spm 2014. Huh ? I called my neighbour who is currently working with mara. Alhamdulillah he said that "everything is going to be okay." I have to just focus on the interview as long as my answers have been saved. But please dont be like me. Acah banyak masa je berbaki kan nak semak. Learn from my mistake.
Done with psychometric test. I went to Kolej Mara Banting for the interview on saturday morning. Basically, the candidates were divided into two respective groups, medic and non-medic. So I joined the non medic group. For each group consists of eight members and no boys in my group. We needed to go through two checkpoints during the interview session. The faci kindly reminded us to use fully english during the interview session.
The first checkpoint was mainly to test our general knowledge. Each of us received an A4 paper. The topic was about Value Of Ringgit. There was a graph about the price of crude oil in USD. We needed to give our professional views on that issue. We were given 10minutes to discuss in a group and 10minutes for presentation. The 3 panelists were judging us throughout the session.
Alhamdulillah everyone in my group managed to give their opinion and speak out during the discussion and presentation as well.
The second checkpoint was much interesting, mainly to test our critical thinking skills. The panelists were really cheerful. It was like a game. We divided into another two groups. So overall we had four members in a group. We have to find out eight items in that room. After that, we created a new product by using those items. Next, we exchanged our product with another group. We presented the other group's product based on what we think or observe. Daripada easy travel product jadi dining set sebab idea kita berbeza. The colors of ideas.
After finishing the task, the panelists used to ask us a few questions such as:
- Why mara should send students to study abroad since the economy is doing bad?
- What is your greatest strength?
- Why do you want to study overseas?
Be the first person to volunteer for answering the question if the panelists didn't point to anyone.
Oh yeah, we wore sports attire during the interview. Make sure berlatih berlari 400m untuk ujian fizikal okay. Nak pergi belajar di luar negara kena fit fizikal dan mental kan.
Actually there was no physical test at all. They just wanted the students to feel more comfortable and enjoy during the interview session.
I'm hoping and praying for the best. Ya Allah perbetulkan niatku ini. I have done my best and let Allah do the rest.
Tips : cakap depan cermin, cakaplah dengan kawan and family dalam bahasa inggeris. I used to practise like an interview session with my beloved brother and my neighbour, auntie Pat who is an english lecturer. Huhu hendak seribu daya tak hendak seribu dalih.
Walaupun saya belum tentu dapat fly under mara tapi ini sekadar perkongsiaan pengalaman.
Thank you for reading. :-)
Edited
7.00 am, May 26
Alhamdulillah Mara has just released the results for Program Persedian Lepasan SPM 2015, and I've received the offer letter for Pre-France preparatory programme which was my first choice.
im reading this in 2020. tqsm for sharing!
ReplyDeleteim reading this in 2022, thank you so much <3
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