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Rundown. Application D etails and Important D ates F.6 Grouping and Support from Careers Committee Strategies on Choices Study Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/ Sectors (SSSDP) E-APP and Alternative P athways Application Admission Figures 2011-2013
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Rundown • Application Details and Important Dates • F.6 Grouping and Support from Careers Committee • Strategies on Choices • Study Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/ Sectors (SSSDP) • E-APP and Alternative Pathways Application • Admission Figures 2011-2013 • School Principal’s Nominations • OEA, SLP and SRR Submissions • Review on Interviewing Skills • Q and A Session • More on Principal’s Nominations
Application Details and Important Dates Careers Teacher: Mr Lee CheukPui
Timeline Download: - NSS U & I @School Web - MSC.Careers @Facebook
JUPAS account • Register by yourselves through the JUPAS website • Starting from 23/9 • Read the instructions and user guide carefully before registration
Payment Methods • Application fee of $420 must be paid before 2/12/2014 • DON”T do it on the LAST DAY • Platforms • Credit Cards • PPS • E-banking • Cash in Bank • Cash in JUPAS Office
Sources of information • JUPAS website: (To be renewed on 16/9) • www.jupas.edu.hk • NSS U & I @ School Web • www.munsang.edu.hk/secondary/nssuni.php • 香港輔導教師協會 • http://www.hkacmgm.org • 學友社 • www.student.com.hk
Sources of information • MSC.Careers Facebook • www.facebook.com/MSC.Careers • Email through Munsang E-class system • eclass.munsang.edu.hk
F.6 Grouping & Support from Careers Committee Careers Teacher: Mr Lee CheukPui
Support Guidance on JUPAS Choices (Main Application: Sept – Dec)
Support • Remarks • Submit your drafted JUPAS choices in HARD COPYto the bookshelf (Outside staff room) of your assigned Careers Teacher before 31/10 • (Late submission would not be entertained) • Write down your Career Objectivesand Preference in studying fieldson the submitted paper
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Support Guidance on Personal Statement Writing
Support • Remarks • Submit your drafted Personal Statement in • HARD COPY to your Class Teachers and • English Teachers whereas finalized • SOFT COPYto the eClass • - Location of submission in eClass: • eClass > iPortfolio > JUPAS > Additional Information
Support Testimonial Writing
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Support • Remarks • Submit 2HARD COPIES of your Student Personal Assessment form to your Class Teachers before 5/1 • Students can download the Student Personal Assessment form MSC.Careers @Facebook or NSS U&I @School Homepage after the F.6 U-life Sharing • Max. of 1 sheet (2 pages) is allowed
Support Verification on Other Qualification by School
Support • Remarks • Submit the documents to Ms Connie Lam (Staff @General Office) during the above 2 timeslots
Support • Post-D day counseling service • (16 - 18/7) • Careers Teachers will offer careers guidance service on JUPAS and alternative pathways at schools • The timeslots will be announced in June through MSC.Careers @Facebook
Support Careers Teachers are always here to support
Strategies on Programme Choices Careers Teacher: Mr Lee CheukPui
Student A 20 programme choices 20 individual applications Will be processed at the same time Band A Band B • Selection criteria: • HKDSE Examination Results • Banding • Interview • Other Academic Results • Music Qualification • OEA • SLP • SRR • others Band C Band D Band E
Student A A1 ✖ 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 Band A A2 ✔ 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Band B A3 8384 85 86 87 88 89 Band C B1 70 … 105 106 107 108 109 110 Band D Band E
Remarks • The participating-institutions only have a general idea of how you rank your programme choices. They do not have access to your actual rank list. Your preferences are made known to the participating-institutions in the form of 5 bands. Actually Priority What the institutions see JS6004 JS1011 Band A Band A JS1011 JS4018 JS4018 JS6004 JS3005 JS2014 Band B Band B JS2014 JS3005 JS6015 JS6015
Range of institutions • Wider range of admission grades • Bottom line setting • Associate-degree pogrammes • Higher-diploma programmes
Range of fields • Choose few programmes (e.g. 2-3) of fields which may not be your first priority but you are still keen to study
Over 20 choices • Eliminate some choices with similar natures and admission grades
Sequence • Rank the programmes which you prefer most and require interviewstop the list before 20 May • Amend the priority to ensure an offer you would like to accept on16-18 Jul • Aim high in A1 • Play safe in A3
New arrangement of JUPAS • During your allocated time-slot after the release of DSE result • Students can REPLACEup to 5 programme choices on the selection lists with new programmes / ADD a maximum of 5 new programmes to the original choices (as long as the total number of programme choices does not exceed 20)
Strategies after DSE Result release Band A Step 1: Replace the “Unrealistic options” (Options with too high/low admission score to you) with maximumof 5 programmes you did not choose before Band B • … Band E
Band A Step 2: Put the “Unrealistic options” (Options with too high admission score to you) to the lower band (e.g. Band D & Band E) Band B • … Band E
Step 3: Be AMBITIOUS for A1 Be SAFE for A3 Ensure an Offer Put your Dream Choice you have 30% - 50% chance to get in A1 Risk loving or Risk averse? It’s up to you A2 Band A Put a choice you are likely to get an offer A3 Remarks: The universities DO NOT know your sequence of options within the same banding
Step 4: Put the bottom line option at Band B B1 Put the options with lowest admission score among your 20 choices B2 Band B B3 Admission Score: A1 > A2 > A3 > B1 > B2 > B3
Study Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/ Sectors (SSSDP) Careers Teacher: Mr Lee CheukPui
SSSDP • Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/ Sectors • a new subsidy scheme initiated by the Education Bureau to subsidise up to 1,000 students per cohort to pursue designated full-time locally-accredited self-financing undergraduate programmes in selected disciplines to nurture talents to meet Hong Kong's social and economic needs. • The unit subsidy will be administered by a two-tier arrangement • subsidy of up to $40,000 is provided to non-laboratory-based programmes • subsidy of up to $70,000 is provided to more costly programmes which are laboratory-based.
Participating institutions • Chu Hai College of Higher Education • Hang Seng Management College • The Open University of Hong Kong • Tung WahCollege • Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Vocational Training Council
Participating institutions Source: http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/j4/sssdp
Application details • The places of the subsidized programmes should be allocated mainly through the JUPAS in order to ensure eligible students are selected through a • merit-based system • Each programme under SSSDP has a JUPAS code • such as JSST01 • Application is the same as other programmes under JUPAS