you might be a scary person.

Asking some preparation questions here:
1) Is the interview also organized at East Malaysia?
2) What if I failed to attend on the exact days / dates of the interview? Any single interview rescheduled?
3) By there any chance Pos Laju or whatever mail delivery service is late? Like I received the mail on 23rd but the interview is on 24th... (Or email is used instead?) East Malaysian here.

*Just noticed updated LAM website about recognized IPT that UTM is having expired accreditation. *

This post has been edited by yen2009: Apr 5 2011, 07:06 PM

my students can confirm that i am, indeed, a scary person.

1. i'm not sure about diploma interviews as i'm only involved in KL, but for degree, it will only be in KL and skudai. we only conduct interviews in east malaysia if there's a significant amount of candidates applying from there in a particular year. this year, apparently there's not much.

2. u can rearrange to a different day, but must be within the interview duration. interview sessions usually run for 2-3 days, so u could reschedule on any of those days. alternatively, u could also reschedule at a different location (switching from KL to JB). but again, it depends on the interview sessions. u cannot reschedule to a time or place that's not within/part of the interview session.

3. if u're from east malaysia, CALL US. why wait for letters or emails?

4. accreditation expires automatically every 5 years, and have to be renewed. UTM's accreditation visit is 11 may (next month).

No, East Malaysians like Civil Engineering terribly. 85% of my class took it, and let me see... 70% of my friends who I know their career took Civil as well.

Within the days period sounds terrible if I failed to book the plane ticket.
Normally how many days (Or weeks, by any chance of 1 month?) ranged from the interview days will the exact interview date be settle down?

This post has been edited by yen2009: Apr 5 2011, 10:11 PM

This is an exciting news!
I hope the confirmation will arrive soon.

By the way, between diploma of arch in utm and stpm, which one has the priority to enter the 1st year degree in UTM?

the exact interview dates have already been set. diploma will be interviewing on 15-17 april, while degree will be 27 and 28 april.

UTM diploma have NO priority to enter 1st year degree in UTM degree.

they join 3rd year straight .

Oh i see, I thought diploma student have to apply though upu again to get into degree course.
Thank you so much.

WAH DEGREE WILL BE ON 27TH AND 29TH APRIL
DOES MEAN IT INCLUDES OF THOSE APPLY THROUGH UPU UNDER THE CATEGORY OF DIPLOMA SETARAF ?

GONNA PREPARE MY PORTFOLIO THEN ..
STILL 0% IN PROGRESS...

Em just wondering, this thing just happened to a friend of mine and I don't know what to say to him. The situation was

this 'Abu' (not his real name) guy is my friend while 'Bobo' is his classmate.

Abu designed something for his final project and had a firm concept since the inception of the project.

Half way thru the semester Bobo steals 100% of Abu's idea and concept and the lecturers knows about it.

During the presentation, lecturers gave over 9000% credits to Bobo for the stolen concept, while Abu got shot in the head for the same concept and failed the subject. Abu even asked the lecturers whether they realized that that is his original idea and Bobo had stolen it from him, and the lecturers said yes, they knew it all along.

Other facts:

1. They both studied in a private college.

2. They both have no other discipline problem or what so ever, attended all the classes and completes all their works.

3. For the project, both have like 99% similarities in terms of building form and 100% same in the concept.

4. Complained to the management but they just don't give a shit

5. Other lecturers doesn't want to get involved.



So what are other things that he can do? Obviously something is wrong there. He really need help because to repeat the subject needs a hell lot of money.

I am not taking this year, just eager to know the normal duration in between the exact dates and announcement of the dates so that I could fly with Air Asia to attend interview punctually on 2 years later.

i'm not sure about intakes from diploma. i'm only involved in SPM and STPM intakes. will ask around. stay tuned.

if abu could produce evidence of originality/ownership, then he can lodge a report of plagiarism against bobo. if the school fails to take action without due justification, abu can sue the school.

but then again, there is very little originality in architecture. even established architects copy from one another. but what's important is acknowledging ur sources. if u dont, then that's plagiarism, and there's only one punishment for it: buang sekolah.

usually a week.

You pounded my heart strongly with these 3 words.

i understand perfectly. these dates are set by UPU, not us. they usually inform us about 10-14 days before the actual interview.

This is sad.
I plan to do architecture in the future. May I know how to prevent this thing from happenning?

That's the thing, one passes with flying colors while the other failed the subject. Repeating the subject will cost him more than 2k. Told him to sue the college, but he said there's too much hassle involved, plus even if he had successfully sued the school, it'll be a tough ride from there onwards as all the admins and lecturers will be keeping an eye on him. So he decided to quit and change school, but one more problem arises. The school won't let him bring back all his works. They said it's school property. How true is this? For companies, yes, but for school? He needs his works to apply for credit transfer as requested by other schools.

This post has been edited by Bonetoad: Apr 9 2011, 07:22 AM

all works produced towards getting a diploma/degree belongs to the school. but the intellectual property belongs to the student. this is the official standing for ALL design schools all over the world. next time read the fine print before signing.

then again, no school in the world requires original work when applying. it's enough to send them a copy or preview of the work. like UTM, we only wanna see some A3s of the works produced, not the entire scheme (10-20 sheets of A1). some dont even ask for it. so what's the big deal?

The school won't even let him take pictures of his works. They are done manually not digital. While the school he's applying requires the original works because they scared MQA or something like that does not recognized his syllabus. This is what he told me. Anyway, thanks a lot for the replies. He somehow settled it already.

Off topic: Today marks 2 years of my working life in this field ^^ and more than 3 years surfing this thread

MQA do not check the individual students intake. ur friend will be going a credit transfer process, which will be dealt with as case by case basis. as long as it is done via proper means, then there's no reason why the new school needs original works.

as for the old school, they have ownership of the works produced, but do not have exclusive rights to the intellectual properties. meaning, if ur friend or any of u want to use the works to promote himself, the school have no legal rights to prevent him from doing so.

i think ur friend is being a typical malaysian student, too scared to go against the establishment and prefer to swallow things whole. and i think the school is dancing for this fact. tell ur friend to grow a backbone and fight for his right.

hi..need opinion here...

i'm not good in science subjects but i like drawing..

This course is suitable for me?

u gonna have to give us a little bit more than that. science subjects are no more than a requirement for intake. all the science u need will be taught during the course. but u gonna need a good command of maths and logics.