PLACEMENT TEST FOR PRE-UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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OBJECTIVE | The Pre-University Entry Assessment is designed to measure your academic potential and readiness to begin studying at the university level. The Critical Thinking Paper tests your proficiency in English Language and Mathematics and compare your performance with other prospective students. The Personal essay will give you the chance to stand out from other applicants with similar academic profiles by telling a unique, personal, and specific story.
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A PERSONAL ESSAY IS
A picture. Your personal essay should produce a picture of you as a person, a student, a potential scholarship winner, and (looking into the future) a former scholarship recipient.
An invitation. The reader must be invited to get to know you, personally. Bridge the assumed distance of strangers. Make your reader welcome.
An indication of your priorities and judgment. What you choose to say in your essay tells the committee what your priorities are. What you say, and how you say it, is crucial.
A story, or more precisely, your story. Everyone has a story to tell, but we are not all natural storytellers. If you are like most people, your life lacks inherent drama. This is when serious self-reflection, conversation with friends, family, and mentors, and permission to be creative come in handy.
An invitation. The reader must be invited to get to know you, personally. Bridge the assumed distance of strangers. Make your reader welcome.
An indication of your priorities and judgment. What you choose to say in your essay tells the committee what your priorities are. What you say, and how you say it, is crucial.
A story, or more precisely, your story. Everyone has a story to tell, but we are not all natural storytellers. If you are like most people, your life lacks inherent drama. This is when serious self-reflection, conversation with friends, family, and mentors, and permission to be creative come in handy.
ESSAY TOPIC
THE LESSONS WE TAKE FROM FAILURE
The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success.
MINIMUM: 450 WORDS
The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success.
- Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure.
- How did it affect you? and
- What did you learn from the experience?
MINIMUM: 450 WORDS
GRADING CRITERIA
ACADEMIC PRACTICE / PRACTICAL WORK
Your writing should demonstrate an effective quality and standard of expression in English. This requires communication of information with some complexity in English which is accurate, clear, appropriate, and shows effective use of academic writing conventions suited for the college level.
COMMUNICATION
Demonstrate the ability to accurately, clearly and appropriately communicate information, attitudes and ideas in an appropriate written, verbal or visual format for a suggested purpose, topic, situation and audience, and in such a way as to demonstrate understanding to academic, specialist and non-specialist audiences
UNDERSTANDING TASK
Demonstrate understanding of the issues which are central to the assigned task. This will reflect the ability to follow guidance to devise a simple task related to the topic.
Your writing should demonstrate an effective quality and standard of expression in English. This requires communication of information with some complexity in English which is accurate, clear, appropriate, and shows effective use of academic writing conventions suited for the college level.
COMMUNICATION
Demonstrate the ability to accurately, clearly and appropriately communicate information, attitudes and ideas in an appropriate written, verbal or visual format for a suggested purpose, topic, situation and audience, and in such a way as to demonstrate understanding to academic, specialist and non-specialist audiences
UNDERSTANDING TASK
Demonstrate understanding of the issues which are central to the assigned task. This will reflect the ability to follow guidance to devise a simple task related to the topic.
FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS
- 1. The essay must have no less than 450 words.
2. Use a word processing program to write your responses – don’t type them directly into the application. This way, you can keep track of the word count and print copies for review.
3. Although you will not be heavily evaluated on grammar, spelling or sentence structure, you should proofread your work and make sure your writing is clear. Grammatical and spelling errors can be distracting to the reader and get in the way of what you’re trying to communicate.
4. After submission you will receive an email with the link to complete the Critical Thinking Assessment Test.
PAPER 1 | THE PERSONAL ESSAY
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The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
