POSed Day May 30 2008

Today had POSed day.

what is POSed day?

Its Post secondary education day.Where some tertiary institutes come over to our school to set up booths and give talks to us on our options after the "O" lvls.

We proceeded to the hall,and the event started with a short prayer and then Mr Simen gave a short speech to address the guests. He spoke about the origins of POSed Day and encouraged our students to be engaged in finding out information for ourselves on POSed Day. "Don't be a passenger on a moving bus and view just fleeting images", he said.

Then the guest speaker Mr Christian chua gave a speech on "Breaking through the Glass Ceiling". It was a very meaningful and as usual very humourous talk. He mainly concentrated on the word "MOTIVATION". He say that if we were to break the word up,the word "motivation"comes from the word motive. Motive, as defined by Mr Chua, is a "reason to..". One must have a motive to do something or a reason to be motivated to do something. For example,one might be motivated to score well so that one can get a PSP as a reward if he or she scores well.The reward is the "motive"or rather the stimulus to trigger why he or she wants to do well.

What is the glass ceiling? It is a ceiling that is invisible and we think that it is there above our heads and it is preventing us from breaking away from our comfort zone. This so called "glass ceiling" is placed on us by others,, by ourselves ,and over time we belive in them.For example,people might tell one that he or she cannot make it big in life because he or she is from a poor family. Over time,he or she believes and thus cannot achieve. Thus, to achieve in life,we must first break through this glass ceiling as it is not there at all in the first place,but rather,its there because we think it is there!Very true indeed!

Mr Chua also shared about how he bacame a professional public speaker.He sold his new book at a discounted price at $15-/and then we walked down to canteen to have our refreshments.

Then it was back to the hall where Mr Trevor gave an overview of our options after the O Levels. We next attended talks by the JCs and Polytechnics and visited their exhibition booths.

I went on the polytechnic route and visited the booths with some of my friends. We chatted with the Ngee Ann Polytechnic lecturer who briefed us about the DPA (Direct Poly Admission) and for the benefit of my readers,these are some points she mentioned to us"

a. The DPA is a newly introduced route.

b. Only 100 places are available

c. Candidates are selected through their"talents".which would be written in a summary of about 250 words on why he or she is a suitable candidate for the course of choice.

d. The previous year's results would be taken into consideration though it would not have such a heavy weightage.

e.Candidates would have 3 choices for courses they would like to apply for

f. Sucessful apllicants would be called back for interviews

g Their "talents" must have some relation to their course they are applying for or they have some experience in that field.(e.g for computer courses,a candidate who has won a national competition in computer engineering would stand a better chance then another who did not participate)

h.If candidate is given a place,actual O Level aggregate must be less then 26.

I visted the other booths and collected brochures.

Here are some courses I am intersted in:

.Temasek poly:Tourism and hospitality mgt,Resort and leisure mgt
.Ngee ann poly:Tourism and hospitality mgt
.SP,NYP:Tourism mgt
.Republic poly: Resort and hospitality mgt
.Mass comm or maybe buisness studies too.

Temesek Polytechnic has an academy in sentosa so i guess I am keen to go there. Republic poly is tied in with Raffles hotel and the cut-off point is 17 for 2008.....so i guess i can make it there if all fails for me?

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