Firstly, I'm here not to brag about my achievements and scholarship applications. But since I've received my SPM result about last 2 months, I decided to apply most of the scholarships that were up on the websites. To clear things up, i just wanna pen down all the experiences here and if possible i want the juniors out there to benefit something from this post. I feel u guys ok; i need to google up everything when i had to attend the interviews just so i know the process.

So here is the list of interviews that i had attended :
1. Yayasan Tenaga Nasional (YTN)
2. Yayasan Khazanah Stage 1 and Stage 2
3. Petronas Education Sponsorship Programme (PESP)
4. MARA Young Development Programme (YDP)

5. JPA Tajaan 9A+
  *please note that this one is similar to bursary programme and we dont have to attend any interviews. As long as we got minumum 9A+ then we are eligible to apply but we need to apply once we get any offer letter from the universities listed by JPA

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Here we go; PESP interview

As stated above PESP stands for Petronas Education Sponsorship Programme. For those who have been shortlisted for PESP, you'll be invited to attend Petronas Youngstars Day (PYD). PYD is an assessment session for the shortlisted applicants. Yep, it's kinda different with other scholarship's interviews; petronas didnt use the word 'interview' but i swear that PYD is one of the best events i had attended! During my time, PYD was held at KDU college while the previous year it was held at Taylors.

Once we arrived, we were splitted up with our parents. The parents will listen a briefing regarding PESP (3 sessions of briefings) while we the students had to go to level 3 for registration.

Registration

They'll ask for your original documents and CTC documents (stated in their web before) and you'll get a tag with your lab number. You'll be seating with those who have the same lab number as yours. A moment that i treasure here; i have to sit with a group of Terengganu boys and there was just two of us, girls sepanjang line tu which was me sitting in the middle and another chinese girl dekat hujung. But those boys were just so nice and friendly, easy to get along! Oh we were also provided with a breakfast 🍴

After that we had a short briefing about PESP, an overview if we become Petronas' scholar etc.
Basically there are 2 assessments. Im sure it's just the same every single year. The first assessment is a computer test while the second one is group sharing session (another name for interview) i told ya they didnt use the word 'interview'

Assessment 1

We were assisted to the computer lab. Mine was Lab 6. There was approximately 20 students in each lab.
So for this stage you'll need to answer 2 types of test;
 1. Personality test - easy peasy lemon squeezy. You just have to be yourself!

2. IQ test (i cant remember the exact name of the test) - there's maths, english, logics and some sort of puzzles? Slightly like aptitude test upsr but for a higher level.
You can use calculator for this test.

Assessment 2

For assessment 2, only those who passed the computer test are eligible to go for this stage. During my time there were 204/259 passed the test. I think so.
We were provided with a lunch box each while waiting for the announcement of successful candidates in assessment 1.

There will be a slide at the front with successful candidates. Those who didn't make it will straightly go home.

We were divided into 2 big groups, A and B. Group A is for the first session (2pm-4pm) while group B is for the second session (4pm-6pm). Mine was group A , 17A if im not mistaken.

So we were asked to follow the facilitator to a hall downstairs. Once u get into the hall you will see a few rows of seat labelled with a number which is your group number. As i mentioned earlier mine was 17. So we formed a group of 5. Kebetulan 3 of us were from Kedah while another 2 were from Terengganu. Then, after we got to know each other a little bit, the faci(s) passed us two a4 papers and a question paper each. The question consisted of individual and group task. We were given around 20 minutes to jot down all the points (no discussion). Next, they'll call a group randomly to go downstairs for the iv . Bila turn group kitorang so we just followed the faci and entered the room. There were 2 panels in the room; a man and a woman both are working with petronas.

I forgot to mention our task. I couldnt remember the task specifically im so sorry.

Individual: they gave us a short article from newspaper regarding the overflow of graduates who didnt get any job offer. So the question is 'what do the graduates want from their future employer? And what can Petronas do to attract more graduates to work there?' some sort of this. So sorry i cant remember the exact question.

Group: ok for this task actually the question that we received in the room was spontaneous and it was different from the question paper yg facilitators distribute. The panels ask us how do we promote Petronas globally and make Petronas well known.

Ok so that's all regarding Petronas interview. Hope you guys can benefit something from this post !



Update: Alhamdulillah i was offered the scholarship!! I actually applied for chemical engineering course in UK but was offered for the local programme at UTP instead.

Firstly, I'm here not to brag about my achievements and scholarship applications. But since I've received my SPM result about last 2 months, I decided to apply most of the scholarships that were up on the websites. To clear things up, i just wanna pen down all the experiences here and if possible i want the juniors out there to benefit something from this post. I feel u guys ok; i need to google up everything when i had to attend the interviews just so i know the process.

So here is the list of interviews that i had attended :
1. Yayasan Tenaga Nasional (YTN)
2. Yayasan Khazanah Stage 1 and Stage 2
3. Petronas Education Sponsorship Programme (PESP)
4. MARA Young Development Programme (YDP)

5. JPA Tajaan 9A+
  *please note that this one is similar to bursary programme and we dont have to attend any interviews. As long as we got minumum 9A+ then we are eligible to apply but we need to apply once we get any offer letter from the universities listed by JPA

__
Here we go; PESP interview

As stated above PESP stands for Petronas Education Sponsorship Programme. For those who have been shortlisted for PESP, you'll be invited to attend Petronas Youngstars Day (PYD). PYD is an assessment session for the shortlisted applicants. Yep, it's kinda different with other scholarship's interviews; petronas didnt use the word 'interview' but i swear that PYD is one of the best events i had attended! During my time, PYD was held at KDU college while the previous year it was held at Taylors.

Once we arrived, we were splitted up with our parents. The parents will listen a briefing regarding PESP (3 sessions of briefings) while we the students had to go to level 3 for registration.

Registration

They'll ask for your original documents and CTC documents (stated in their web before) and you'll get a tag with your lab number. You'll be seating with those who have the same lab number as yours. A moment that i treasure here; i have to sit with a group of Terengganu boys and there was just two of us, girls sepanjang line tu which was me sitting in the middle and another chinese girl dekat hujung. But those boys were just so nice and friendly, easy to get along! Oh we were also provided with a breakfast 🍴

After that we had a short briefing about PESP, an overview if we become Petronas' scholar etc.
Basically there are 2 assessments. Im sure it's just the same every single year. The first assessment is a computer test while the second one is group sharing session (another name for interview) i told ya they didnt use the word 'interview'

Assessment 1

We were assisted to the computer lab. Mine was Lab 6. There was approximately 20 students in each lab.
So for this stage you'll need to answer 2 types of test;
 1. Personality test - easy peasy lemon squeezy. You just have to be yourself!

2. IQ test (i cant remember the exact name of the test) - there's maths, english, logics and some sort of puzzles? Slightly like aptitude test upsr but for a higher level.
You can use calculator for this test.

Assessment 2

For assessment 2, only those who passed the computer test are eligible to go for this stage. During my time there were 204/259 passed the test. I think so.
We were provided with a lunch box each while waiting for the announcement of successful candidates in assessment 1.

There will be a slide at the front with successful candidates. Those who didn't make it will straightly go home.

We were divided into 2 big groups, A and B. Group A is for the first session (2pm-4pm) while group B is for the second session (4pm-6pm). Mine was group A , 17A if im not mistaken.

So we were asked to follow the facilitator to a hall downstairs. Once u get into the hall you will see a few rows of seat labelled with a number which is your group number. As i mentioned earlier mine was 17. So we formed a group of 5. Kebetulan 3 of us were from Kedah while another 2 were from Terengganu. Then, after we got to know each other a little bit, the faci(s) passed us two a4 papers and a question paper each. The question consisted of individual and group task. We were given around 20 minutes to jot down all the points (no discussion). Next, they'll call a group randomly to go downstairs for the iv . Bila turn group kitorang so we just followed the faci and entered the room. There were 2 panels in the room; a man and a woman both are working with petronas.

I forgot to mention our task. I couldnt remember the task specifically im so sorry.

Individual: they gave us a short article from newspaper regarding the overflow of graduates who didnt get any job offer. So the question is 'what do the graduates want from their future employer? And what can Petronas do to attract more graduates to work there?' some sort of this. So sorry i cant remember the exact question.

Group: ok for this task actually the question that we received in the room was spontaneous and it was different from the question paper yg facilitators distribute. The panels ask us how do we promote Petronas globally and make Petronas well known.

Ok so that's all regarding Petronas interview. Hope you guys can benefit something from this post !



Update: Alhamdulillah i was offered the scholarship!! I actually applied for chemical engineering course in UK but was offered for the local programme at UTP instead.