What is your race?

My cousin (Chinese) being called up for Petronas interview few years back, 2001 I think.. She got straight A1 and during that time it was kinda hard to get straight A1, so she was offered with various scholarships and courses. She told me those who went for Petronas interview were all Malays except for her. Don't know this incident still happens now?
She rejected the offer and opted for Yayasan Tenaga Nasional (YTN) and completed her double Degree in Engineering in UNITEN without being attached to working bond.

This is not still happening. btw, I'm from uniten. haha

That's what I said about group discussion .. let's see one example, you are discussing in your group in front of the interviewer .. then you are trying to be yourself, your trueself is didn't like to talk but only voice your opinion in a simple way .. you give another person a chances to talk and you only speak for a certain time and didn't want to involve with the debate .. and do you think they still take you just because you have your principe not to try to be others? I don't think so, they searching for a talented and have a leadership attitude, not only the academic result .. perhaps you can ask every person that get the scholarship .. do they just keep their mouth shut in front of the interviewer, participate when the time come or they try to show the interviewer they are the best in the group?


P/s: Got this tips from my niece, he attend the scholarship last year and he need to participate everytime in the group discussion even he is not a talkative person, and he said that he can see people that never talk much in their life suddenly talk to much just get the 'ticket' to enter there .. everyone that have been called to the camp is totally one of the best student in this country, then how they will fight for the limited scholarship? Just using their result? Think of it ..

Just sharing my niece story .. I'm not qualify to enter there but I understand how the intake happen .. really scary for me ..

Niece but he?
Maybe you meant nephew?
Btw, good tips you shared there.

Ops .. salah eja ka? Hahaha .. sowy bro .. ya ya .. nephew

P/s: That's why I'm not qualify there ..

This post has been edited by Irzani: Apr 6 2007, 02:04 AM

Lol. As i summarised in my earlier post, you'll have to be the rose amongst the thorns if you want to stand a chance. But this is my advice to all non bumi applicants. If you want overseas scholarship from petronas, forget it. No matter if you were the best guy in the whole interview of 3000 applicants your chances are slimmer than Eva Longoria's waist. Especially if you're applying for med. If you apply for UTP or local tertiary education then your chances would be quite high. Really, your quota is like just a tiny slice of a cake =/

at my time.. interview is divided into 2 session.. group session n individual session..

you'll be placed into your grup 1st.. n 1 current issue will be given to each grup.. u hav to discuss bout the issue.. find the point.. recommendation etc..

then your group will be called one by one to meet the interviewers.. 2 person @ my time.. from UTP lecturer @ staff.. so.. hi here n there n they'll asked u bout the issue.. just speak.. dont answer in single word.. always elaborate.. they just want to see how talkative you are LOL..

then after that you'll be called in a group to meet them once again.. here you'll act as in forum.. group discussion bout the issue.. the tips is: dont argue with others idea.. agree with thems.. but give and improvment for their idea..

hurm.. thn after nothing more.. u can go home..

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Added on April 6, 2007, 2:29 amfrom told by ESU.. they only sponsor two student per intake (or per year i forgot) for medic.. n assume the scholarship as their contribution to country.. PETRONAS is not a charity organization to sponsor student.. but they are investing for each sponsorship.. thats from ESU not me..

This post has been edited by ableze_joepardy: Apr 6 2007, 02:29 AM

Well i attended educamp last year and the vice pres said they give 10 seats for overseas med.

Hiya....for god sake.....plz change the title man~I hardly understand wat u r typin.....
Grimm u r totally right.......my uncle work in petronas also said the same thing to me b4 i applied for it.........the incident with lots of bumi candidates n onli 1 or 2 non-bumi is still on.........for petronas of course
If u really wan to get scholarship for tis kind of courses,i suggest u go apply for shell scholarship better........they purely c the result onli but not for those spm leavers ...they can apply next year after finish their A lvl or stpm.

This post has been edited by seyuripa: Apr 6 2007, 09:37 AM

I'm one of the candidate that dont talk much. just voice out my opinion where suitable. And I accepted for the scholar. What say you?

And I know few friends thats not accepted eventhough they talk a lot. good personality does matter while talkative give s**t IMHO.

dont think it will reach to 10. at most is 5. they get nothing for sponsor for med student. just for community service or maybe part of their requirement.

Can't do nothing.. you are soooooooooo goooooooodddddddd to have it, . Perhaps my nephew story is getting another scholarship on that time, .. Petrono or PetronPetron or perhaps a fake scholarship .. , or maybe enter a wrong camp .. pity on my nephew, need to bashes him then ..

P/s: Sorry ya bro .. just sharing, maybe I should apply it myself this year, afraid to enter there because of this discussion and his experience ..

This post has been edited by Irzani: Apr 6 2007, 03:19 PM

I believe they sponsor med students just enough to supply their company doctors

Petronas is such a huge ass corporation they probably need a few hundred doctors serving all over. Near their oil mines, offshore, in their bases in other countries.

no offense. you should try if u have interest. looking forward to see u then

hafiz i guest u r an utpian..
can u tell in depth about the course BIS..n wat is the job prospect..
i just applied for it n dont expect to get it..but pet. offered me that course

I have edited the topic title to something people can actually understand.

genius_style: Take this forum seriously if you want to be treated seriously yourself. Start by typing properly.

I m a chinese. I think tat i m quite excellent in my spm n quite active in curriculum too. But still failed to get it

Is Petronas really serious about this. I spoke to a lot of straight A students with excellent co-curriculum achievement and blah blah blah and they got rejected. Bumi and non bumi also. Does petronas know that all these Bright students applied for JPA too? Even if they really call the cream or the cream of the crop, I would say a majority of them will take up JPA rather than Petronas. The Educamp is another waste of money and limits the selection of candidates. Rather they should have a more spread out interview like JPA.

JPA is Government and Petronas is not. Petronas caters first to their employees' kids and any balance would probably go to deserving bumis and non-bumis (80-20 like JPA?) I'm sure they are not about to sponsor 1,800 scholars like JPA and considering the size of their organisation all across the country and elsewhere, the number of employees applying for their kids would probably make up three fourths of the number of scholarships on offer. And to top it all, I know of a guy who only scored one A in SPM but he got a scholarship to study in UTP because his mom is a Petronas' staff.

http://www.utp.edu.my/academic/tech_bis.php

you can refer to this link for more info regarding the courses. it will be long for me to explain all. anyway, i welcome any question for details and i try my best to answer it.


maybe these candidate still dont meet certain criteria ? who knows.


at most they accept around 800 students per intake i guess. and yes, their employees' children will have an extra opportunities. even in a form need to state either the candidate have somebody related to petronas or not.