Rundown1. Application Details and Important Dates 2. F.6 Grouping and Support from Careers Committee3. Strategies on Choices 4. Study Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/

Sectors (SSSDP) 5. E-APP and Alternative Pathways Application6. Admission Figures 2015 7. School Principal’s Nominations 8. OEA & SLP submissions9. UK and Cambridge Admission by Dr. Andrew Murray10. Q & A session11. More on Principal’s Nominations

Application Details andImportant Dates

Mr. Kwan Chun-wing Newton

Date Programme

18/9 JUPAS Talk

22/9 – 2/12

Submission of Main Applications by Applicants

3/12 – 24/5

Amendment/ updating of Programme Choices by Applicants

14/6 Checking of own allotted 24-Hour Time-slot for modification of Programme Choices by Applicants

13/7 Release of HKDSE Result

14-16/7 Modification of Choices after HKDSE Results by Applicants

Timeline

Date Programme

8/8 Main Round Offer (Announcement)

10/8 Release of results of rechecking and remarking of HKDSE Examination Results

11/8 Submission of request for Reconsideration of Application subsequent to upgraded HKDSE Examination Result

18/8 Offer Results for Reconsideration of Application

22/8 Clearing Round Offer (Announcement)

25/8 Subsequent Round Offer (Announcement)

Timeline

Timeline

Information to be completed by applicants

• Personal Profile• Programme choices (maximum of 20 choices)• OEA• SLP• Other Academic Results (Language subjects) (optional)• Music Qualifications (optional)• Disability information (optional)• Prior education (optional)

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- Register it yourself through the JUPAS website

- Starting from 22/9 (Tuesday)

- Read the instructions and user guide carefully before the registration

JUPAS account

Source: http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/submission-of-application/application-period-and-method/

JUPAS account

The Applicants’ User Guide will be available on 22/9/2015!!

Fee

Fee Schedule Fee (in HK$)

Application $420

Amendment/ updating of Programme

Choices (3/12 – 24/5)

$80 per submission

Modification of Programme Choices

(14 – 16/7)

Free-of-charge(one submission only)

Acceptance of offer$5,000

- Application fee of $420 must be paid before *1/12/2015- DON’T do it on the LAST DAY

- Platforms

i. Credit Cards

ii. PPS online (not by phone)

iii. E-banking

iv. Cash in Bank

v. Cash in JUPAS Office

Payment Methods

NO PAYMENT via SCHOOLS !!!

Date Institutions

26/9 HKUST

10/10 PolyU

17/10 City U & HKBU

24/10 CUHK & LingnanU

31/10 HKIED

7/11 HKU & OUHK

Dates of Information Days

Dates of Information Days

Source: http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/calendar/

1. JUPAS website- www.jupas.edu.hk

2. NSS U & I @ School Web- www.munsang.edu.hk/secondary/

nssuni.php

3. 香港輔導教師協會- http://www.hkacmgm.org

4. 學友社- www.student.com.hk

Sources of information

5. MSC.Careers Facebook- www.facebook.com/MSC.Careers

6. Email through Musang eClass- eclass.munsang.edu.hk

7. Through your personal email

Sources of information

F.6 Grouping & Support from Careers Committee

Mr. Kwan Chun-wing Newton

Class TIC

6A Ms. Luen MW

6B Ms. Lam WM

6C Ms. Ho CL

6D Ms. Kwok MY

6E Mr. Koo CY

6F Mr. Kwan CW

6GMs. Luen MW (1 – 11)Ms. Lam WM (12 – 22)Ms. Kwok MY (23 – 33)

F.6 Grouping

Guidance on JUPAS Choices(Main Application: Sept – Dec)

Support

Date Item

16/10 Submission of Drafted JUPAS Options by Students to

Careers Teachers

26/11 Deadline for discussion on Drafted JUPAS Options with

Students

27/11 Submission of Main Application by Applicants - School

Deadline

Support

Remarks

1. Submit your drafted JUPAS choices in HARD COPY to the bookshelf (Outside staff room) of your assigned Careers Teacher before 16/10

(Late submission will not be entertained)

2. Write down your Career Objectives and Preference for studying fields on the submitted paper

Support

Sample

Support

Guidance on Personal Statement Writing

Date Item

9/10 Class teachers finish proofreading Personal Statements

(Content)

9/11 Students return their Personal Statements to English

Teachers

8/1 Students receive proofread Personal Statements from

English Teachers (Grammar)

Support

Remarks

1. Submit your drafted Personal Statement in HARD COPY to your Class Teacher and

English Teacher whereas the finalized one in SOFT COPY to the eClass

- Location of submission in eClass:

eClass  >  iPortfolio  >  JUPAS  >  Additional

Information

Testimonial Writing

Support

Date Item

6/1 Submission of Student Personal Assessment by

Students - Deadline

Support

Sample

Support Sample

Support Remarks

1. Submit 2 HARD COPIES of your Student Personal Assessment to your Class Teachers before 6/1 (Wednesday)

2. Students can download the Student Personal Assessment from MSC.Careers @Facebook or NSS U&I @School Homepage after the F.6 U-life Sharing

3. Max. of 1 sheet (2 pages) is allowed

Verification on Other Qualifications by School

Date Item

4 - 8/1 Verification of Other Qualifications by School (First

Phase)

11 – 24/3 Verification of Other Qualifications by School (Second

Phase)

Support

Support

Remarks

1. Submit the documents to Ms. Connie Lam (Staff @General Office) during the above 2 timeslots

Post-D day counselling service(14 - 16/7)

- Careers Teachers will offer careers guidance service on JUPAS and alternative pathways at school

- The timeslots will be announced in June through MSC.Careers @Facebook

Support

Careers Teachers

Ms Ho Chun Lan Ms Lam Wing Man

Mr Kwan Chun Wing Newton Ms Luen Man Wah

Mr Koo Chun Yin Ms Wong Wing Tung

Ms Kwok Mei Yu Mr Li Chun Wai

Careers Teachers are always here to support

Support

Strategies on Programme Choices

Mr. Kwan Chun Wing Newton

Band Programme Choice

A 1 - 3

B 4 - 6

C 7 - 10

D 11 - 15

E 16 - 20

Allocate 20 programme choices in 5 bands

1.Wider range of admission grades

2.Bottom line setting‒ Associate-degree programmes‒ Higher-diploma programmes

Range of institutions

1.Choose few programmes (e.g. 2-3) of fields which may not be your first priority but you are still keen to study

Range of fields

1.Eliminate some choices with similar natures and admission grades

Over 20 choices

Student A

Band A

Band B

Band C

Band D

Band E

20 programme choices

20 individual applications

Will be processed at the same time

Selection criteria:- HKDSE Examination Results- Banding - Interview- OEA- SLP- SRR- SPN- Other Academic Results- Music Qualification- Others

Student A

Band A

Band B

Band C

Band D

Band E

78 79 80 8182 83 84

A1

33 34 35 3637 38 39

✔A2

83 84 85 8687 88 89

A3

70 … 105 106 107108 109 110

B1

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Remarks

1. The participating-institutions only have a general idea of how you rank your programme choices. They do not have access to your actual rank list. Your preferences are made known to the participating-institutions in the form of 5 bands.

Sequence

Band A

Band B

Actually Priority

Band A

Band B

What the institutions see

JS6004

JS1001

JS4018

JS1001

JS4018

JS6004

JS3005

JS2014

JS6015

JS2014

JS3005

JS6015

1.Rank the programmes which you prefer most and require interviews top the list before 24 May

2.Amend the priority to ensure an offer you would like to accept on 14-16 Jul- Aim high in A1- Play safe in A3

Sequence

- During your allocated time-slot after the release of DSE result

- Students can REPLACE up to 5 programme choices on the selection lists with new programmes / ADD a maximum of 5 new programmes to the original choices (as long as the total number of programme choices does not exceed 20)

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Strategies after DSE Result release

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Put your Dream Choice you have 30% - 50% chance to get in

Put a choice you are likely to get an offer

Risk loving or Risk averse?It’s up to you

Step 3:Be AMBITIOUS for A1

Be SAFE for A3Ensure an Offer

Remarks: The universities DO NOT know your sequence of options within the same banding

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Put the options with lowest admission score among your 20 choices

Admission Score:A1 > A2 > A3 > B1 > B2 > B3

Study Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/ Sectors

(SSSDP)Ms Luen Man Wah

SSSDPSubsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/ Sectors

- a new subsidy scheme initiated by the Education Bureau to subsidise up to 1,000 students per cohort to pursue designated full-time locally-accredited self-financing undergraduate programmes in selected disciplines to nurture talents to meet Hong Kong's social and economic needs.

- The unit subsidy will be administered by a two-tier arrangement- subsidy of up to $40,000 is provided to non-laboratory-

based programmes - subsidy of up to $70,000 is provided to more costly

programmes which are laboratory-based.

Participating institutions

– Chu Hai College of Higher Education

– Hang Seng Management College

– The Open University of Hong Kong

– Tung Wah College

– Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong

Kong, Vocational Training Council (THEi)

Participating institutions

Source:http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/page/detail/531/

Application details

- The places of the subsidized programmes should be allocated mainly through the JUPAS in order to ensure eligible students are selected through a

merit-based system

- Each programme under SSSDP has a JUPAS code such as JSST01

- Application is the same as other UGC-funded programmes under JUPAS

Application details – Case Study

– OUHK – Bachelor of Nursing with Honours

in General Health Care

Application details

Source:http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/j4/sssdp

Band A

Band B

Band C

Band D

Band E

JSSU40

JS9740

*Two different choices

http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/sssdp/about-sssdp/objectives/

Sources of information

http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/sssdp/about-sssdp/objectives/

Sources of information

E-APP and Alternative Pathways

ApplicationMs. Luen Man Wah

www.eapp.gov.hk

Source of informationwww.ipass.gov.hk/edb/index.php/en/

E-APP - Electronic Advance Application System for Post-secondary Programmes

‒ a one-stop internet-based online application system developed by the Education Bureau to facilitate the 2015 Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) Examination candidates to lodge advance applications for locally-accredited post-secondary programmes (both sub-degree and undergraduate programmes) not covered under the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS)

Participating institutions

- Caritas Bianchi College of Careers

- Caritas Institute of Community Education

- Caritas Institute of Higher Education

- Centennial College

- Chu Hai College of Higher Education

- City University of Hong Kong - Community College of City University

- Hang Seng Management College

- HKCT Institute of Higher Education

- HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College

- Hong Kong Art School (Division of the Hong Kong Arts Centre)

- Hong Kong Baptist University

- College of International Education

- School of Continuing Education

Participating institutions

- Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education

- Hong Kong College of Technology

- Hong Kong Institute of Technology

- The University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing

Education (HKU SPACE)

- Lingnan University

- The Community College at Lingnan University

- Lingnan Institute of Further Education

- SCAD Foundation (Hong Kong) Limited

- The Chinese University of Hong Kong - School of Continuing and

Professional Studies

Participating institutions

- The Hong Kong Institute of Education

- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hong Kong Community College

- The Open University of Hong Kong

- Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education

- The University of Hong Kong - HKU SPACE Community College

- Tung Wah College

- Vocational Training Council- Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education

(IVE) / Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI)

- Vocational Training Council - Technological and Higher Education Institute

of Hong Kong (THEi)

- Yew Chung Community College

- YMCA College of Careers

Date Programme

Early Dec Commencement of E-APP main round application

Mid May Deadline for E-APP main round application

Late May Commencement of E-APP second round application

Late Jun Deadline for E-APP second round application

Timeline

FAQ about E-APP

Admission FiguresCareers Mistress: Ms Ho Chun Lan June

Admission Figures 2014-15

Name of University

No. of Offer

Total %HD Associate Degree Degree

Total % Total % Total %

A The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology         14 6.15% 14 7.91%

B The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 16 9.04%     10 5.59% 26 14.69%

C The University of Hong Kong         11 15.64% 11 6.21%

D The Chinese University of Hong Kong         23 14.53% 23 12.99%

E City University of Hong Kong     3 1.69% 14 9.50% 17 9.60%

F Hong Kong Baptist University         7 3.35% 7 3.95%

G Lingnan University         5 1.12% 5 2.82%

H The Open University of Hong Kong         20 7.26% 20 11.30%

I The Hong Kong Institute of Education       2 0.56% 2 1.13%

J  SSSDP 6 3.39% 6 3.39%

Total : 16 9.04% 3 1.69% 112 63.28% 131 74.01%

Admission Score 2014

• http://www.jupas.edu.hk/f/page/267/687/af_2014.pdf

• http://www.jupas.edu.hk/en/download-area/

School Principal’s Nominations

Careers Mistress: Ms Ho Chun Lan June

To give due recognition to students who have contributed to social services or made outstanding achievements in non-academic areas such as sports, music, social services, other cultural activities, or who have demonstrated leadership abilities.

Rationale

a) International

b) Regional

c) School

Level of achievements

- In total of 5 students will be

nominated through the scheme

Number of nominees

- A one page personal statement showing your area of strengths

- Record of Achievements

- Supporting documents

- Band A Choices

Things to be submitted

in E-

COPY

- 16 Dec 2015 to 17 March 2016

- Submit your documents to Ms Connie Lam (Staff @General

Office)

Application period

Remarks on SPN

“If you are nominated under SPN, you will be

considered by the JUPAS participating-institution(s)

and / or the SSSDP institution(s) concerned for your

Band A choices as at 12 May 2016 on an individual

basis.”

OEA & SLP Submissions

Careers Mistress: Ms Ho Chun Lan June

- Select 10 OLE items to be submitted for

JUPAS Application

Date Item

22/9 Submission of Main Application by Applicants - Starting

2/2 Submission of OEA by Applicants - Deadline

Other Experience & Achievement (OEA)

Date Item

TBC Students can obtain the SLP from School Computers - Start

29/4 Submission of SLP by Applicants - Deadline

Student Learning Profile (SLP)

- Personal Information (check)

- Year Results (NSS 1 – 3) 3 – 4 years

- OLE Records (select later)

- Internal Scholarships & Awards in Athletics Meet etc

(if any)

- Other Achievement Records (input: 24th till end of the month & select later)

- Student’s Self-account (input later)

Student Learning Profile (SLP)

- A series of workshops will be conducted for F.6 classes during class teacher periods in early December 2015 by Mr. Mok Kwok-wai.

- Students must have the following ready in eClass.

– OLE Records

– Other Achievement Records

– Self-account

Student Workshop for SLP

- Students must finish the selection of OLE & Other Achievement Records for SLP by TBC.

- The SLP can be downloaded at school from TBC.

- Further information will be released in the workshops.

Selection of Records & Issue of SLP

1. Academic results from BOTH daily and mock exam marks will be calculated for SRR rating.

2. We do not include "Below Average" as one of the ratings for our students. The percentile (& rating in JUPAS SRR) and our grading system (in the ReportCard) are not the same.

Student Reference Report (SRR)

UK and Cambridge AdmissionDr. Andrew Murray

Director of Studies in Natural Sciences &Admissions Tutor (Sciences)

Trinity Hall University of Cambridge

Question & AnswerThanks

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