面試班有用嗎??

chubby2688

The most important part is Daddy's occupation...if Daddy is 大律師/總警司...or Grandfather is 李嘉誠/曾蔭權...

Do you think they will reject your application???

[ 本帖最後由 chubby2688 於 09-11-2 11:24 編輯 ]

wahfai

You are absoulately RIGHT!

原帖由 chubby2688 於 09-11-2 11:19 發表
The most important part is Daddy's occupation...if Daddy is 大律師/總警司...or Grandfather is 李嘉誠/曾蔭權...

Do you think they will reject your application???   

cherryyim

I have sent my girl to interview class. Frankly speaking, not as useful as I have expected. But I see she has improved in common knowledge, and she learns how to behave during an interview. Having said that, she has got only 1 2nd interview out of 3. To conclude, if parents do have time to teach the child, there is no need to join the interview class.

makmak615

Still waiting for DBS result and I did sent my boy to 面試班.   But really cannot tell the co-relation between the two.

Only 5 years old kid, even they have been taught the skill in the class, they may not be able to demonstrate in the interview.  

It's all about the kid's fate.  Who he/she really is, who are his/her mom and dad?

lin624

個人覺得完全沒有用

daisy17772

原帖由 pamelaywy 於 09-11-2 08:57 發表
I don't think those interview classes are useful, so I didn't take my boy to any interview classes.

I took my boy to participate in three very competitive schools for interviews. From what he describ ...

This is a good example showing that interview class may not be needed , but only if the parents have been training them.  If you haven't go much time in coaching your child, you have to very careful when you read comments here.  You need to think seriously how your children could compete with so many intelligent children.

I think interview class may be useful if parents don't have the time to do so, or have no clues how to train the children.  But even the child joins such class, parents at home still have to train them.

So you will definitely find some parents say interview class is useful becoz their children finally got  an offer from those elite schools, but some say is not useful .......

Of course, I still know some kids got offer from top schools but never join, becoz 1) they are repeating, so they're big kids, more matured and 2) their mom have put alot effort in training / coaching their behaviour, knowledge, manners etc.

So a parent should make the judgement themselves depending on their own situation, the kids' attributes, amt of time can be dedicated in training their children etc.

There isn't 1 single appropriate answer.

[ 本帖最後由 daisy17772 於 09-11-2 13:43 編輯 ]

cherryyim

Absolutely agree!

tracytang

Agree!!

原帖由 daisy17772 於 09-11-2 13:38 發表


This is a good example showing that interview class may not be needed , but only if the parents have been training them.  If you haven't go much time in coaching your child, you have to very careful ...

FloliMom

原帖由 rachncurtsmom 於 09-10-29 13:58 發表
... 反而我覺得幫小朋友養成閱讀習慣對面試及日後更有幫助。

Why?  Would you share more in details?

childrenfirst

my kid did not go to the interview class and I don't think the class will help much. I did participate in a mock interview which i found it 99% useless. From my observation, the questions asked by the schools were not knowledge-based but very daily life. Not even 1 school asked about e.g. taxi types in hong Kong, who is the chief executive in HK, etc.

monkeydog

To me, the most useful part is to see how my kid reacted to the interviewers/strangers in the mock interview from the DVD as we did not have any chance to see how our kid will react to a stranger in a formal interview setting, even though we can train our kid at home ourselves, but we are not strangers.

lovelygal

Agree.

My case is I did send my girl to interview class for
1) have more interaction with other kids (especially most of the school now requires group interview)

2) i dont have time to do much research on interview format / questions (yes, i am lazy) and to practice at home

3) i believe kid performs differently in front of teacher vs parent

4) let her have a feeling of how the 'interview' would be

I just treat it as another practice opportunity, which personally i found it useful to certain extend (at least achieved my objectives listed above).

chubby2688

讀完考到咪有用…考唔到, 咪冇用囉!

[ 本帖最後由 chubby2688 於 09-11-3 11:29 編輯 ]

ysnmama

面試班等同各証書. 沒人知其實有多大幫助一樣. 因為有而考入便有用. 考不入便沒有用. 有些人認為反正叫有做過.

siutim

有時係好睇小朋友性格, 如果佢本身對住陌生人都有傾有講既, 再加上你平日已經教佢既禮貌,再同佢多D睇圖書, 我覺得唔上面試班都OK, 如果小朋友好慢熱, 唔多應人 , 或者唔尊心既, 就會痳煩D!

daisy17772

原帖由 chuppy 於 09-11-3 13:07 發表


Totally agree...exactly the purpose of the use of interview class, many parents think interview class = acceptance guarantee, but I personally treat this more like a "training"....

It's more appropriate / realistic to treat this as a training platform and an opportunity to evaluate your kid's competence level comparing with other kids.  As so many kids joining interview classes, would they all be accepted by top schools? Of course not, actually most are not.  But it definitely help a kid in some aspects.  So adjusting your expectation is required, otherwise most parents will be disappointed.

Sumyeema1

copy from other forum:
問： 請問小學為了面試, 除了音樂、體育、文藝外，您對上面試班、禮儀訓練有什麼意見?
by 謙父 (2007-05-17 13:14)  
答： 無謂浪費金錢，那些班不參加也罷。正常家庭自然會培養小朋友禮貌，入門叫人、保持笑容、走時說再見這些已經足夠，小學面試又不是選港姐或者超模，絕大多數也只是要求前述基本禮貌而已。同理，人家問問題要作答、不怕陌生人、口齒伶俐等平時多帶小朋友參與學習活動、群體遊戲或者落會所玩玩多見人亦足培養。那些乜鬼班搵個無厘頭鬼婆講一大堆似是而非的東西然後同小朋友玩兩玩就收你幾千銀，再唔係誇張學校要求教一大堆無用東西，又話有內幕料又乜又物製造恐慌同壓力，實際完全唔係那回事。如果你問我們的話，那些班是綽頭，有錢有時間買多幾本故事書或者帶小朋友去多點展覽會、音樂會同見人好過

早教媽媽

原帖由 Sumyeema1 於 09-11-3 15:48 發表
copy from other forum:
問： 請問小學為了面試, 除了音樂、體育、文藝外，您對上面試班、禮儀訓練有什麼意見?
by 謙父 (2007-05-17 13:14)  
答： 無謂浪費金錢，那些班不參加也罷。正常家庭自然會培養小朋友禮貌，入門叫人、 ...

littlefaith

原帖由 monkeydog 於 09-11-2 20:59 發表
To me, the most useful part is to see how my kid reacted to the interviewers/strangers in the mock interview from the DVD as we did not have any chance to see how our kid will react to a stranger in a ...

一般小朋友到K3，見到陌生人都驚，唔奇，但區區一個半個面試班就可以訓練到小朋友唔驚陌生人，好似有啲跨大面試班嘅效用。

要訓練小朋友，令佢哋唔怕見陌生人，帶小朋友參加多啲唔同類型嘅活動，見多啲人，比單單淨係上面試班，效用更大啦﹗