8 May 2015
After checking through the USM website on 29th April 2015, I found that USM offer me pharmacy interview. This is my first choice! That time i was working at BBW book fair in Melaka. I was excited but somehow i feel lost because don't know what should be prepared and i need to work for 12 hours per day until 6th May the fair ended only can start doing research.I don't have much time to prepare.
On 7th May, my dad fetch us to Penang from Johor. It was a long journey. We started car by around 2pm. Along the way to Penang, we rested in the R&R for feeding our empty stomach and stretching our legs. We reached the hotel on 11pm after we having the dinner at the malay stall. The stall was near the Penang bridge. It sells tom yam soup dinner meals set.
The interview for the next day will be held on 2.15pm. I reached the university by 1pm. Then, I walk around there and also went to toilet due to i had butterflies in my stomach haha.. I was nervous that time. On 2pm, the clerk of pharmacy department came out from the office and pasted the namelist on the board that outside the office. I checked for my name, I was placed in room 3. Then we walked into the office to register. The clerks request us to queued up according the room number. Arghhh... I was too slow to queue up. I was the seventh students. I thought that we were already arranged and will be according the position that listed on the board. I was wrong.. The clerk also asked us to arranged our certificates file according the list that gave us.
After that, we were brought by the clerk to a room at the second floor of the office. The clerk gave us a briefing about the interview. Then, we just waited for her to call us to enter the room. Until 3pm, she just started to call the first student to enter the room. The first student was a Malay girls. She entered the room for around half hours. OMG... so long time.. we all felt panic. Then, the second candidate enter the room. Luckily she just entered for 15 minutes, haha.. At this time, i felt relief. Because if the interview took half an hour i really not much thing to talk about.
I sat the room until around 4.30pm.. Finally is my turn. I breathed in deeply and then knocked the door. There were 3 interviewers in the room. One Chinese male professor and another two Malay ladies. I was asked for submitting the photostatted document and show them the original document that i brought.
Firstly, they asked me to introduced myself. Then asked me:
1. why i choose pharmacy course
2. why i choose usm
3. how i came to usm
4. what is the name of the dean of the pharmacy school in usm
5. what talent that i had
6. what are the job for pharmacist (this was requested to answer in BM)
I was told by the interviewer that there were around 500 candidates attend the interview but only 115 students will receive the offer. It was an intense competition among the good students. Bear in mind that USM want the talented students but not only the nerds. So dont forget to tell the talent that u had when the interviewer asked you. Other than that, I found that only two STPM students among 14 students that being placed in room 3. Most of the students were Matric students. Thus, it showed that Matric students had higher chances to get this course than STPM students.
I took around 10 minutes for the interview. It was too short because i had not much thing to speak and not prepared. Therefore, it is needed to prepare and do a lot of research before attending an interview. Besides, remember to bring a bottle of water and had your meal before going to interview.
After finishing interview, i called my family to fetch me back. Then, we started our trip in Penang.......
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