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Best Asian Medical School

wgy589 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:04:07 +0800

Really is dat, it's hard 2 define a gud medical skol, so i realli hope the comments here would help our young skol leavers 2 make a right choice on which medskol is suitable 4 them.
Another thread can b open 4 other parts of the world, so v just focus on Asia here, ok?

National Shame, no Malaysia in THES Uni Ranking

wgy589 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:20:03 +0800

Pls read,

It's from Lim Kit Siang Blog,

Malaysia has fallen completely out of the list of the world's Top 200 Universities this year in the 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)-Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.

This is a national shame, especially as occurring during the nation's 50th Merdeka anniversary and it must serve as the latest warning to the national leaders to end their complacency and delusion that Malaysia is becoming more competitive globally when the reverse is actually the case.

Last year, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Malaya (UM) were listed at the tail-end of the Top 200 in the THES-QS ranking, and I had repeatedly warned both in and out of Parliament that Malaysia risks being pushed out of the 200 Top Universities ranking unless there is the political will to check brain-drain and restore meritocracy and excellence to Malaysian academia.

It gives me no satisfaction but extreme sadness to see my dire prediction come true!

UKM was ranked 185th last year, up from 289th spot in 2005, but has now fallen to 309th place.

For UM, once the nation's premier university, it is a sorry tale of continuous decline. It was ranked among the world's top 100 universities in 2004 at 89th position, fell to 169th in 2005 and 192nd placings in 2006, and is now out of the Top 200 league, having fallen to 246th spot!

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), which was ranked as the only "outstanding" five-star university in a recent government survey, has fallen to 307th spot from 277 last year. In 2005, USM was in the 326th spot.

It is pathethic that the reaction from the University of Malaya Vice Chancellor Datuk Rafiah Salim is just one of excuses as to why UM had been thrown out of the top 200 Top Universities league rather than a commitment to check the decline and restore the nation's former premier university to its previous repute as one of the world's top universities .

Rafiah attributes UM's poor placing to the new methodology used to calculate rankings this year, pointing out that "Even the National University of Singapore (NUS) has dropped to the 33rd spot when it was within the top 10".

Rafiah is right that NUS has dropped in this year's ranking but wrong in saying that NUS was "within the top 10" last year.

NUS was ranked No. 19 last year and has dropped to No. 33 - a fall of 14 placings. In contrast, UM has dropped 54 places.

Even more pertinent, UM at 246th spot is now 213 places behind NUS (No. 33)! Why is this so when both universities had started off on almost the same footing half-a-century ago?

Despite the use of a new methodology in calculating the ranking this year, Singapore has been able to maintain two universities in the Top 200 list - NUS at No. 33 and Nanyang Technological University at 69th, while Malaysia's two universities in the Top 200 list last year had been edged out
completely. Why is this so?

NUS Halls

wgy589 — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:19:25 +0800

Any NUS students here?

I'm currently applying to NUS Halls and still deciding on which hall to choose. I'll be doing medicine there and hope to be as near as possible to YYL Medschool (within walking distance).

Eusoff Hall map
Kent Ridge Hall map
King Edward VII Hall map
Raffles Hall map
Sheares Hall map
Temasek Hall map

By refering to NUS map, the closest should be King Edward VII , then Sheares Hall , Kent Ridge Hall .

Any idea on which is the most suitable (or closest) for me?

Thanks for your advice in advance.

NUS ASEAN Scholarship

wgy589 — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:53:20 +0800

Anyone being called for this scholarship or attended it before.
Mine would be at Renaissance Hotel this Friday.

I went to their interview for medical course last week. Most probably couldn't get in, still wondering why did they call me for scholarship.

Any advice on how to prepare for it.
Your advice would be much appreciated.

Kemasukan Program Pengajian Sarjana Perubatan

wgy589 — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:03:20 +0800

Mind to tell me what's this actually. Is it the application of Local U Medicine Outcome? "Sistem Semakan Keputusan Permohonan Kemasukan Program Pengajian Sarjana Perubatan Sesi Akademik 2007/2008" from Ministry of higher education website.

http://www.mohe.gov.my/keputusan_sarjana/

Kuok Foundation

wgy589 — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:22:24 +0800

I'm currently applying to Kouk Foundation award for Local U and S'pore U.

The problem is: I'm not sure which to go (Local U or NUS/NTU) ? Which Uni should I put in the application form?

Your advice would be much appreciated!

Spesifikasi MUET Yang Baru

wgy589 — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:39:34 +0800

Please refer to http://www.mpm.edu.my/main.php.

It's getting tougher to score in MUET next year as Reading is the easiest part (high possibility to get all correct if you prepare well for it), while Writing is always the toughest part to score.

Application to Local U Medicine

wgy589 — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:19:15 +0800

I wish to know your advice on my application to local U Medical Course. I have just taken my results and I get 4A's for PA, Chem, Maths and Bio(all papers are A's), Muet Band 6, Co-curricular around 5 over 10.

My problem is: which Uni should I choose(UM, UKM, USM, Unimas, UPM, UMS). Of course like many others, my 1st choice is UM and UKM. However, I'm afraid the competition into their Medicine is too stiff. Any advice?

Penang MC Interview

wgy589 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:56:52 +0800

I've just been notified to attend an interview by Penang Medical College next Tuesday. Anyone attended their interview before, or current PMC student, mind sharing your interview experience? Eg, Questions asked, Interviewers' name, what're they looking for(a normal person or a bright student), how competitive it is to get into their medical programme. Your opinion on the college, provided if you're a current student,eg their facilities, the lecturers. the future of their students...

Your advice would be much appreciated.

[addedon]February 27, 2007, 9:41 pm[/addedon]Anyone?

[addedon]February 28, 2007, 9:09 pm[/addedon]Anyone, please. This thread gonna disappear!

GIC Scholarship Interview

wgy589 — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:51:09 +0800

I've just been notified to attend GIC (Government of Singapore Invesment Corporation) Scholarship Interview and Test in Malacca. Any idea of how is it like (structure of the Interview/Test, Questions asked....etc).

Any experience shared and advice given would be much appreciated!

Nestle

wgy589 — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:00:17 +0800

Curious to ask any one here working in Nestle, M'sia?

personal statement to medical school

wgy589 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:24:52 +0800

I'm currently applying to Hong Kong U ,Faculty of medicine.I need to hand in a personal statement of 2 pages .I'm sure there're many of you here have gone through the same process,but maybe to diff medical schools.I would be very grateful if you can provide me the information and skills to write a good and attracting personnal statement.Thanks.