P5 Secondary School Interview

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P5 Secondary School Interview
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Prepare for Interview Questions

• What do schools want to know about you?
• Directions Circle the best responses.
• Please introduce yourself.
• I like sweets.
• There are four people in my family.
• I am a serious, hardworking student.
• I won first place in a solo verse competition.
• Chicken is my favourite food.

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The best answers were

• C and D
• Schools want to know that you are a good student.
• They want to know that you are a good person.
• They want to know what makes you special.

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Questions that school will always ask

• Please introduce yourself.
• Why did you choose our school?

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What does, Please introduce yourself, really
mean?

• What are your good points?
• Why would we want you at our school?
• Will you be successful in secondary school?

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How do I prepare to talk about my good points?

• Step 1 Brainstorm
• Make a list of your good points
• Make a mind map of your good points

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Brainstorm and write down your good points

• 1. Awards that you have won in subjects, sports,
  music, etc
• (First place, second place, third place, runner
  up, etc)
• English Awards
• Solo Verse Speaking
• Choral Speaking
• Speech Festival
• Reading Aloud Competition
• Writing Competition
• Penmanship

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2. Clubs that you belong to

• (English Ambassadors, Basketball Team, Scouts,
  Chorus, Drama, etc)

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3. Participation in school events and activities

• (Study Trips, Drama, Choral Speaking, Morning
  Assembly, etc)

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4. Hobbies

• (Football, writing poetry, swimming, taking care
  of your pet, drawing, etc)

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5. Best subjects and why you like them

• (English, Maths, Chinese, Science, History,
  Music, PE)

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6. Good personality Use adjectives to describe
yourself

• Examples Honest, serious, hardworking,
  friendly, helpful, kind, caring, trustworthy,
  outgoing

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7. Put your good points together in one Big mind
map
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First runner-up in writing competition
First prize in solo verse speaking
Creative
Awards
English Abassadors
Practice more
How to improve
Clubs/ extra-curricular (school)
My good points
Math (Most difficult)
Subject
Participation (School events)
Hobbies (Home)
English (Favourite)
Drama
Activities in class are fun
Chess
Swimming
Study tour
Lion the witch and the wardrobe
Horse riding
Role-playing
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Example My Good Points

• My name is ____ and I go to S.K.H. Chi Fu Chi
  Nam Primary School. I am kind, hard-working,
  honest, generous and creative. My hobbies are
  playing chess, horse riding and swimming. At
  school, I am a prefect, an English Ambassador,
  and I play badminton. I also took part in The
  Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe drama and
  presented in the English morning assemblies. My
  favorite subject is English because I enjoyed the
  study tour and the activities like role playing
  in English class. I find Math the most difficult
  but I will practice more to improve. I was the
  first runner up in a writing competition, and I
  took the first price for solo verse speaking.

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write an essay based on your mind map.

• Make a mind map and write an essay on What are
  your good points?
• Write a minimum of 80 words.
• You should hand in a hard copy of your homework
  (mind map and essay) after the summer holidays
  in September.