Here are some suggestions.
Misunderstanding explanation
Myth 1: HKU's interview is not important at all, but the college entrance examination score is the most important.
Correction: The importance of college entrance examination scores is self-evident. However, if the college entrance examination score will have a decisive impact on HKU admission, I am afraid it will only be aimed at top students in various provinces and cities and those who are not a few points higher than the first line. For most students (the second place in the province to thousands), the interview will still have a great impact on their admission.
After analyzing the collected questionnaire data and all kinds of information, the author thinks that HKU does have a standardized scoring system, which will comprehensively consider candidates' college entrance examination scores (which will be converted according to the top scores of each province) and interview scores, and finally give a score to rank nationwide, thus determining the admission list. However, due to the particularity of the top scholar status in each province, it may be admitted directly and is not included in this scoring system.
Myth 2: HKU interview is an oral English test.
Correction: HKU's interview was indeed conducted in English. However, HKU has absolutely no intention of selecting a group of students with superior English ability for special training. I believe that candidates who can pass the college entrance examination scores are enough to cope with the English needed for the interview. What HKU really values is students' thinking ability and teamwork ability. So you just need to try your best to show your two abilities to the professors. If the candidate gets stuck with one or two English words during the interview, don't panic. You can even describe the word in one sentence. As long as your opinion is valuable, the professor will not deduct points because of your English level.
But then again, candidates still need to spend more time on oral English. Fluent English can help you express your views better.
Myth 3: We must pay special attention to HKU's image, details and flattery.
Correction: don't let these boring ideas fill your already nervous heart during the interview. I once heard that someone in her group put chairs for all members when they entered the room and put them back when they left. Such behavior is too artificial. Imagine if you were a professor at the University of Hong Kong, would you admit such a student? HKU hopes to recruit successful people in the future workplace and even future social leaders. Do leaders need such qualities so much? Therefore, we should pay attention to being a gentleman, but don't go too far and become a joke for everyone. Be natural and graceful during the interview, keep your usual habit of going in and out of the scene, and your on-the-spot performance will naturally appear more formal and polite than usual.
As for flattering HKU, it is even more important to grasp the discretion. Since you have chosen HKU, the professor naturally knows that you like this university, and the excellence of HKU is self-evident. If candidates continue to brag about HKU, they will inevitably feel too affected. Naturally, Hong Kong will not admit a student because of his flattery.
What kind of students does HKU want?
The students that a university likes are often similar. Excellent grades, creativity, flexibility, rigorous logic, strong critical thinking, strong self-control and independent school running ability, perseverance and strong teamwork ability.
However, HKU still has some differences from other universities. As long as you browse HKU's enrollment brochure, it seems that HKU especially favors those students who can enter big companies to get high salaries after graduation. This may be closely related to HKU's financial center in Hong Kong. This also determines that HKU will make such a judgment unconsciously when choosing students.
So, in order to cater to HKU's taste. We give candidates the following advice:
(1) Dress formally, at least not too casually. You will have the aura of successful people in the workplace before entering school, which will definitely give the interviewer a good first impression.
(2) Stay calm during the interview, and have certain facial expressions when appropriate, giving people a feeling of calmly coping.
(3) Properly handle the relationship with team members, don't rudely interrupt others or blindly echo, and give consideration to the harmony of the whole team atmosphere while expressing your opinions.
Interview improvisation and skill analysis
We can roughly divide the candidates for the interview into three categories: leadership, work and soy sauce. Leadership is naturally excellent, and it is very likely to get 10 (excellent). Although the type of work is not so prominent, they play a vital role in the discussion and can get very high marks (positive acceptance). Not to mention soy sauce type.
How to be a team leader
The leader mentioned here does not mean a bureaucratic leader who speaks with a bureaucratic accent, nor is he a big brother or a big sister who is scheduled by everyone, nor is he a timekeeper who discusses and watches time for everyone. He is a leader who can guide the whole interview thinking and come out to turn the tide when everyone has no ideas and says nothing.
However, many times, people are not familiar with the topic of their interview, or even have never heard of it. So how should this situation be handled?
First of all, if you don't understand the professor's question, you can ask him to repeat it. If the discussion has already started, please listen carefully to other students' speeches. You can hear roughly what the problem is from other people's speeches. Don't speak rashly if you don't know the problem, you may ramble.
After you understand the problem, it doesn't matter if you don't understand the areas involved. Let me introduce the method used by a senior in the interview.
At that time, the interview topic was: Do you want to set up a private university in China?
Everyone can put forward some opinions on this question, and to impress the interviewer under such circumstances, it is different from other students. According to this classmate, most students thought that private schools should be set up at that time, and stated some reasons. When it was his turn to speak, he didn't express his views, but divided the question into two small questions: first, why do you want to run a private university; Second, how to solve the funding problem of private universities. Later, a classmate discussed these two issues, and this classmate also expressed some views in the follow-up discussion, including the possible contribution of private universities to education in China and how private universities can make profits.
In this way, although the student did not state too many very good and convincing reasons, he guided the whole interview. So I suggest that you might as well use this discussion to help the group break down the problem during the interview. After solving every small problem, make a summary and draw some useful conclusions for the whole problem. And this classmate who broke down and summarized the questions for everyone naturally became the leader of the whole interview.
Students who can enter HKU interviews are often excellent in themselves. How to make a team of excellent students give full play to their greatest ability is also the quality that an excellent leader should have. You should learn to deal with these contradictions in the team, make the discussion develop in the direction of goodwill and efficiency, and make yourself the core of the group. This ability needs students to accumulate constantly in their daily study and life. I believe that students with this personality charm can not only successfully pass the interview of HKU, but also achieve greater success in their future lives. This is another story.
How to be an excellent team member
It is impossible for everyone in a group to be a leader, and a team in which all members regard themselves as leaders cannot cooperate efficiently. Most of the students still need to be excellent members of the group, and they can make suggestions on the problems faced by the group and give creative and valuable suggestions. In fact, these excellent suggestions will make you unconsciously become the core of the group. To do this, students need to have good thinking quality and extensive knowledge base.
If you have a good understanding of the topics discussed in the group and can express comprehensive and in-depth views, then you can naturally dominate the interview.
Take my experience when I participated in the recommendation scheme of the President of the University of Hong Kong as an example. At that time, our topic was about Macao casinos and their reference significance to the mainland. This is a very famous topic and has been tested many times. Fortunately, I have seen it and thought about it. I would like to remind all candidates that HKU will often repeat the exam with the topics discussed in previous years. You may wish to practice the old questions more. Maybe the topic of the interview is what you usually encounter.
At that time, other students in the group did not know much about this topic during the interview. After some students briefly stated and expressed their views on the gambling industry, I mentioned that I had read some materials, and the contribution of the gambling industry to a country's GDP was around 3%, of course, Macao was more. Now, due to the ban on gambling in the Mainland, a large amount of gambling money has flooded into neighboring countries in Asia. China should start gambling appropriately to prevent capital outflow. Later, everyone continued to express some views after my words. In my second speech, I mentioned that the government and education should play an important role in guiding citizens and preventing them from indulging in gambling. I feel that this interview has well grasped the crux of the problem and guided the direction of the interview to a certain extent.
Analysis of HKU interview questions
Panel interview
Although this handbook covers all aspects of the interview, I still want to emphasize here that your analysis and grasp of the problem is always the most important thing for the interviewer. Whether your thinking is clear, whether the question is comprehensive and thorough, whether you can grasp the key points of the question, and whether your thinking is creative, critical, logical and organized are the key factors that really make you stand out from the candidates.
These excellent thinking qualities are often acquired by candidates after years of accumulation. One of the main purposes of this manual is to hope that candidates can show their thinking quality to the greatest extent, so that the interviewer can see your advantages to the greatest extent and cover up your shortcomings.
Looking at the interview questions of HKU in the book and at the back of the book, we can find that the interview questions of HKU are nothing more than examining the candidates' two abilities: stating opinions and solving problems. And these two abilities are often examined together. In the group discussion, we must grasp the relationship between these two points. You should state and discuss the problem first, make clear where the contradictions and conflicts are, and give your own views and reasons. Then, the discussion did not end there. Many times you need to continue to explore ways to solve problems.
If you just talk about your support for a certain point of view, you actually only express your certain value orientation, no matter what point of view you support, it is biased. The author himself was asked such a question during the interview: which do you think is worse, cheating or sweating? At that time, the students in the group only stated which was worse, but in the end, the interviewer mentioned in the summary, why didn't anyone analyze all kinds of situations in detail, which were worse than stealing and which were worse than cheating? So there is no need to hold an absolute view on some issues.
After discussing with some students, I think we should adopt the discussion order from what is what and why to what to do in the interview. First of all, we should clarify the contradiction of the problem and explain some of our own views, then discuss why there are such problems, and finally analyze how to solve such problems well. Unfortunately, many students just go with the flow, or because they feel that their English level is not enough, they give up the idea of expressing their psychology. These are all very regrettable. The author believes that if you think about every interview question with what, why and how, candidates will find that they have something to say about every question and become the best in the group. Of course, the specific situation should be flexible.