Ten Tips – Exam techniques

Tests and exams are a regular part of the school environment. It is important that exams be kept in proportion – they are important, but not the end of the world. Some things can be done to make exams a more valuable, worthwhile and less threatening experience for students.
1. Have all necessary material with you.You can’t borrow items such as pens, pencils, rulers or special equipment while in an examination.

2. Have a relaxing night before your exams. Have an early night, and try to have a healthy breakfast.

3. Read the entire paper. Where you have choices, decide which ones you plan to answer.
4. Plan your time. Spend some time drafting a plan for the questions you choose to answer.

5. Jot down ideas as they come to you. While you are answering one question, information about another may suddenly occur to you. Jot it down somewhere because when you come to that question perhaps an hour later, you may have forgotten it.
6. Don’t leave any questions unanswered. If you are short of time, use note form. Remember, you can only be marked on the answers you give.
7. Never leave the room early. If you have time at the end, go over your work, add information (eg. in the margin). You can’t return if you suddenly remember a fact after you have left.

8. Do not spend too long on multiple choice questions. With multiple choice questions it is best to cover the answers and work out your own before looking at the choices on paper. If you can’t answer the question come back  to it later – have a guess.
9. Never omit an entire question. No matter how well you answer other questions, you must leave time for all questions – a perfect answer can still only earn a certain number of marks. If you write nothing, you can’t receive any marks and you have lost all your marks for a particular question. Write something – it may at least give you a few points.
10. Maintain a stable energy level. Eating foods such as chocolate bars before an exam might give you an energy boost to begin with but your blood sugar levels will drop within an hour and your energy will plunge dramatically, making it hard for you to concentrate.

Taken from: http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/gotoschool/highschool/examtips.php

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Date:	Friday, October 16, 2009
Time:	6:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:	Alcoa Court, Curtin University
City/Town:	Perth, Australia

Wapec Inc welcomes all of u to the most anticipated event of the year…

Pasar Malam Curtin ‘09

We are going to sell sotong kfc goreng, Chicken wings, and ice blended coffee.

Be there or be square!

Malaysian Student Council Australia Western Australia Chapter (MASCA WA)

Annual General Meeting 2009/2010

1.0 All affiliate clubs members are invited to attend MASCA WA AGM 2009/2010. The details of the AGM are as the following:

           Date: 24^th October 2009 (Saturday)

           Venue: Curtin University of Technology (exact room to be confirmed later)

           Time: 9am-12pm

         

Agenda:

1.         Confirmation of minutes of 2008/2009 Annual General Meeting.

2.         Chairperson’s Report

3.         Secretary’s Report

4.         Treasurer’s Report and Financial Statements

5.          Election of Committees and Office Bearers

6.         Other Matters

7.         Adjournment

2.0 All office bearer positions are opened for nominations. Anyone interested for the vacancies please fill in the nomination form as attached is this email and return the form to MASCA WA Secretary latest by 19^th October 2009, 6 p.m. to be eligible for nomination. The vacancies are: Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer and 5 other general committees.

 

3.0 Affiliate members are only allowed to nominate a person for each position; meaning a person can only be nominated once for a position throughout the election. If insufficient nominations are received to fill all vacancies, the candidates nominated are taken to be elected and further nominations are to be at the general meeting. Candidates’ running for Chairperson is required to give a 5-minutes self-introductory speech.

4.0 To ensure fairness and impart equal opportunity of the balloting process, each affiliate club members are only allowed a maximum of 5 members (excluding nominees) to attend this annual general meeting. Each attendee is entitled two votes per position.

5.0 All affiliate club presidents (current and or future term) are not qualified to be candidates for any office-bearer position. The reason being is to encourage and give more opportunities to other students to take up leadership roles. However, each affiliate club is required appoint a representative to sit in MASCA WA committee. The past years, the person sitting in the committee is the affiliate clubs’ president.  

6.0 If there is anything else affiliate members would like to rise in the AGM, please forward your matter to the Secretary by the 19^th October 2009 to be inserted into the agenda.

 

Thank you.

 

Yours sincerely,

Yvonne Si-Ting Tan

Secretary of Malaysia Student Council of Australia 

Western Australia Chapter

 

P/s: if there is anything you are uncertain about the election feel free to contact me @ 0430230636 or through email yvonnetst@hotmail.com

Dear all,

Photographs for the Hari Raya – Deepavali Open House Celebration  – 10 October 2009 are now available at http://amwa.org.au/gallery,

Other photographs can also be viewed at MyPSA website: http://www.mypsa-wa.org/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/mypsawa

Best regards,

Tan Seng Khee

UWA SPRING FEAST 09

Alhamdullillah, we were able to do one of our annual fundraising activities last Thursday. Special thanks to Nor Azizul, Valerie, Farid Zarif and Que for their effort of making this fundraising event successful. Here is the report on money we make on that day.

OPEN HOUSE RAYA & DEEPAVALI

Alhamdullillah again. The event went smoothly. WAPEC Inc did a good job in assisting the event preparation. This is first time that all of the clubs and Consulate working together to give the best for the benefit of Malaysian Community in WA. Thanks to Aizad to be such a wonderful MC and Nun for the lovely performance. And also for all WAPEC Inc members who came, thanks a lot for the support.

1 IMPORTANT SURVEYS

The committee has another  idea on the activities WAPEC Inc could do other than Pasar Malam before the end of this semester. However, we are not going to force the members to join or not. Especially most of us now in the critical phase and will be having exam another 3-4 weeks from now. We are doing surveys to see if we got enough support to make the event.

1) Interview Sharing Session. One Petronas executive from Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Group, Mr. Anpalagan Sockalingam for 3 months. He volunteers himself to have a sharing session with the WAPEC members and talking about the Structure Interview. As one of the Petronas staff who had gone through the Structure Interview, I am sure he has lots of experience to share with us. This is a good opportunities especially for the final years who is going to have the interview by end of this year. So what is your say?

Yes or No to this event?

Thank you,

Muhammad Izzat A Rahman
President WAPEC Inc 09-10

Dear Fellow Malaysians,

Hari Raya – Deepavali Open House Celebration

We are happy to inform you that this year’s Family Day will be a Hari Raya – Deepavali Open House celebration jointly organised by Malaysian students in WA and the Consulate General of Malaysia. This event will be held on Saturday, 10 October 2009 from 11.30 to 15.00 hours at the Kardinya Community Centre, Morris Buzacott Reserve Williamson Rd, Kardinya , WA 6163. This event is a continuation of last year’s Family Day held on 22 November 2008.

In line with the 1Malaysia – People First Performance Now concept introduced by our new Prime Minister, the Honourable Dato’ Sri Mohd. Najib Tun Haji Abdul Razak, this event provides a platform for Malaysians and students to meet new/old friends, exchange ideas/news/jokes, enjoy the Malaysian cuisine, hospitality/atmosphere, dancing and performance, all in the spirit of “muhibbah”.

There will be home-cooked food such as nasi minyak, ketupat, beef rendang, lamb korma, vegetarian dalca, mee goreng, murukku, soft drinks, etc. At the same time, adopting the “Aussie” culture we also encourage you to BYO (pot luck) to avoid any short fall of food. We welcome any volunteers and contributions to make this event even more successful and enjoyable.

We hope to see you all during the Hari Raya – Deepavali Open House celebration at Kardinya Community Centre on 10 October 2009 from 11.30 to 15.00 hours. Kindly indicate whether you will be attending the above said celebration as soon as possible before 8 October 2009. Your early response is appreciated.

“Selamat Hari Raya” to our Muslim friends and a “Happy Deepavali” to our Hindu friends.

Yours sincerely

Tan Seng Khee

Vice Consul

First announcement

END OF STUDY AND THESIS ALLOWANCES

Dear Dec 2009 Graduating Scholars,

End of study allowance and thesis allowance for all scholars graduating by this coming Dec 2009 have been processed and submitted to Kuala Lumpur for payment. Should you not receive the above by end of next week, kindly email Sydney Office as follows:

To: petsa_asst1@yahoo.com.au (Pn Shafidah)

cc: petronas.advisor@yahoo.com.au (Pn Zaidah)

Submitted for your kind info and action.

SYDNEY OFFICE

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Second announcement

PETRONAS STRUCTURED INTERVIEW (SI) FOR SCHOLARS

Dear Dec 2009 Graduating Scholars,

The recent announcement made on 18^th September 2009 with respect to SI has reference. To all Dec 2009 graduating scholars (i.e graduating as per our record) who are unable to attend the scheduled SI from/between 14^th till 18^th December 2009 for whatever reason(s) eg: convocation, family matter, personal matter, relatives wedding, back in Malaysia already by those date(s), health matter etc please ensure to email to :

To: petsa_ast2@yahoo.com.au (En Noorizan)

cc: petronas.advisor@yahoo.com.au (Pn Zaidah)

by Thursday, 8^th October 2009 to indicate/confirm on your inability to attend the SI. We at Sydney Office will update Group Talent Sourcing (GTS) i.e Recruitment Department of PETRONAS by Friday, 9^th October 2009 on the total number of affected graduating scholars.

Please also note that the final list of identified scholars for SI will be determined by GTS. All identified scholars shall be notified accordingly once information is available.

Submitted for your kind info and action.

SYDNEY OFFICE

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For further detail visit www.petsaoffice.wordpress.com

En.NOORIZAN MUSTAFFA

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

To All Scholars,

Please be informed that En Ibrahim Adham Asmail has no longer with us at Sydney Office. We now have En Noorizan Mustaffa to assist me in looking after all of you.

He could be contacted using the same email address i.e petsa_ast2@yahoo.com.au.

Thanks & Regards,

Zaidah Md Zain
PETRONAS Student Advisor
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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

GOOD NEWS: STRUCTURED INTERVIEW(SI) IN DEC 2009

To All Dec 2009 Graduating Scholars,

Please be informed that the SI for Dec 2009 graduating scholars is now scheduled to be held in Sydney in mid Dec 2009. Further details will be communicated soon through further announcement and through President of Club at each location.

Sydney Office will arrange your ticket for the SI to and from Sydney and will advise accordingly once interview name list is made available from KLCC.

Recruitment Dept.in KLCC shall determine who will be called for SI. They will refer to your online test as well as the recent Semester 1/2009 examination result.

Meanwhile, please ensure you are “ready” for the SI.

All the best.

Thanks & Regards,

Zaidah Md Zain
PETRONAS Student Advisor
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For further detail visit www.petsaoffice.wordpress.com

Thank you,

Muhammad Izzat A Rahman
President WAPEC Inc 09-10
ph: 0430144755
email: miarasigheart04@yahoo.com

Assalamualaikum w.b.t and good day I bid to all Petronas scholars representative,

Last Sunday, 13 September 2009, Western Australia Petronas Club (WAPEC Inc) had conducted our emergency general meeting at the Curtin University of Technology. The previous committee has been dissolved by Syahiran, our respective President for the Year 2008/2009. The new committee has promise to do their best and maintain our spirits.

Nomination and election for WAPEC 2009/2010 high committee:

• The new community as elected:

-         President – Muhammad Izzat A. Rahman

-         Vice President – Haziq Madzin

-         Secretary – Valerie Supang Radin Epoi

-         Treasurer – Abdul Qayyum bin Nadir

-        Wisdom Editor – Kashfullah Khalid

I’m as the new President of WAPEC Inc, will strive my best to enhance the quality that has been achieved and continue with our professionalism agenda under the platform of WAPEC Inc. As I have been mentioned to all the WAPEC Inc members, we need to ‘be proactive’ in order to be a highly effective people.

Last but not least, I certainly look forward to work with  each of you and being part of any activities here in Australia. I hope we can do our best together to take care and improve the well-being of all Petronas scholars here.

“Begin with the end in mind”

Thank you,

Muhammad Izzat A Rahman
President WAPEC Inc 09-10
ph: 0430144755
email: miarasigheart04@yahoo.com

Assalamualaikum (>_<)

GREETINGs all WAPEC members,

For the Muslims, Alhamdulillah we have all reached the 19th day of Ramadan. Time do flies so fast. And I was informed that our members in UWA are having a week break, therefore, Happy Holidays and I hope you guys are having a blast (well, except for the Geology students maybe..too bad guys (-__-)’ )

Anyways, the reason for this e-mail is to just inform everyone regarding WAPEC’s annual general meeting. The plans for this AGM has been mentioned in the latest edition of WISDOM (^_^) and the details are as the followings:

Event: WAPEC Annual General Meeting

Date: 13th September 2009

Time: 2 pm – 5 pm (1400hrs – 1700hrs)

Venue: Building 300.217 @ Curtin University of Technology

Tentative:

* Doa recitation by Ahmad Shakir

* Video showcase

* President’s speech

* Appointing new high committees for 2010 session

* Activities for club suggestion and discussion

* FIN (>_<)

The objective of this meeting is clearly to form a new set of high committee members for next year’s session. And therefore, I really urge all the members to come and support this year’s AGM. If not US then WHO? After all, how many times a year (this year) have we gathered and do something together?

This AGM will decide the future of this club. So, please support (>_<)

So, SEE YOU THIS SUNDAY mates!! (^_^)

and happy fasting

” Indeed We have revealed it (Quran), in the night of Power. And what will explain to you the night of Power is? The night of Power is better than a thousand months, Therein descends the Angels and the Spirit (Jibreel) by Allah’s permission, on every errand: (they say) “Peace” (continuously) till the rise of Morning!” (Al-Qadr 97:1-5)

“Seek the Night of Power on the last ten nights in Ramadan…” (Al-Bukhari)

Regards,

Wan Rokiah Binti Ismail (>_<)

Secretary (soon to step down)

WAPEC Inc.